Good, for smaller sites

  • Have been using this for a while now, maybe two years, and it has been great. I even have all of the add-ons and use most of them. Problem lately is the plugin is killing an extremely overpowered server. Not sure why. Finally had to nix the plugin, and viola! Server CPU and RAM went from 100% usage with 50 or 60 people on the site to 10%. I’ve reached out to the dev (v14.4.3 was my doing, nagging works) but only just. Doubt they can do anything and clearly large sites (250,000+ hits a month) aren’t using this from the reviews. Site was bigger, then this issue started tanking traffic (before Google HCU in 2023) even after doubling my server size (extra $$$ I won’t get back). Will update if I’m wrong about that. Just thought I’d share my experience with the plugin. For tech deets: Cloudways hosting on a 16GB Vultr server, PHP 8.2, MariaDB 10.5, varnish, Cloudflare Ent, Wordfence Pro, GeneratePress theme, WP Super Cache, and storing only last 30 days of stats (minimum allowed). Established site with little to no change year to year. This site should be sailing, and it does when this plugin is deactivated. Sadly. Loved it. Very useful and accurate enough to count on it (verified against GA4 and the money guys). Only support request got a quick answer and resolution. 5-star plugin for smaller sites, no question.

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  • spielo

    (@spielo)

    The problem is the large amount of memory for the statistics. We had the same problem and after we reset 3 years of stats to zero, everything was running quickly again. However, with every update, improvements are made that make things worse. Displays in the menu that nobody needs, the simple old ones have been removed and in the new 14.9 version, the online users are no longer happy. We are currently very disappointed at how a good plugin can continue to be made bad!

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