Slowed my site down to a crawl including wp-admin and had to remove via FTP

  • I have this plugin on 7 of my sites. One day, one of my sites slowed down to a crawl. I checked the pages that didn’t depend on WordPress and they were working fine. So it seemed like a WP issue. I then tried to log in to the Admin panel but kept getting the “Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded” error message and it was too slow to even bring up the interface to uninstall or update plugins.

    So I had to manually log in to my Webhost and disable the plugins 1 by 1 until I found the culprit: WP Statistics.

    Now, I’ve learned my lesson and uninstalled all 7 copies of this plugin and never looking back again!

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  • Plugin Contributor Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    Local statistics process can be a very high load process, if your hosting provider limits your resources WP Statistics may not be for you.

    well this plugin seems a bit huge and so many functions, features, report generating things. so I am sure you might need a decent host to use this all, I guess when more and more data accumulate to your database, the site can be obviously slow ,specially when generating charts/reports (those fancy charts in screenshots). so I don’t recommend this plugin for shared hosting, better go with either statcounter or google analytics.

    I am surprised that wordpress is allowing this plugin to live and breathe especially since it is requiring developers to change their execution time (php.ini) to above the basic requirements. This is a huge red flag in regards to best practices and you should never, ever require users to change their php.ini files to make a simple plugin work. If you guys want wordpress analytics, check out Woopra

    Plugin Contributor Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    The plugin does not require any change to your execution time.

    Recording and analysing statistics on your local host is not a simple task and yes you have to have enough resources to do so. If you don’t other options are available to you.

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