Comments on: Turbocharging StatTraq

By: StatTraq plugin at the Dogberry Patch

StatTraq plugin at the Dogberry Patch — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 02:40:45 +0000

[...] Richard at Boakes.com gives an interesting idea that is supposed to speed up your stattraq database manipulation by 90%! [...]

By: Mike’s WordPress Plugins » Blog Archive » Speedup WP-Stattraq

Mike’s WordPress Plugins » Blog Archive » Speedup WP-Stattraq — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:29:47 +0000

[...] UPDATE: Via Paperback Writer, I also found another nice speedup for StatTraq – that will make your pages load faster for viewers. At boakes.org, he suggests you delay the insertion of the ‘hit’. This is a great tweak. Simply change your stattraq.php plugin file by finding the ‘INSERT INTO’ database SQL and change it to INSERT DELAYED INTO. This tell the script to hit the database and not to wait for confirmation of a successful insert, which is good if you care about the data, but these are hit stats. If a DB problem arose, losing a couple hit ticks would be fine. [...]

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:23:27 +0000

Works splendidly! GJ!!

By: devkungfoo

devkungfoo — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:00:11 +0000

I tried this method out however the increase I received was negligable at best. After some research I found this (on the mysql manual) -

“Note that INSERT DELAYED is slower than a normal INSERT if the table is not in use. There is also the additional overhead for the server to handle a separate thread for each table on which you use INSERT DELAYED. This means that you should only use INSERT DELAYED when you are really sure you need it!”

By: Paperback Writer » Stattraq Speedups

Paperback Writer » Stattraq Speedups — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 02:36:47 +0000

[...] The rest were Stattraq (a wordpress statistics plugin) related. I followed this Turbocharging Stattraq hint which consisted of replacing “INSERT INTO” at line 43 in the /plugins/stattraq.php file with “INSERT DELAYED INTO”. [...]

By: Found Blogging - Free Blog Resource

Found Blogging - Free Blog Resource — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:49:14 +0000

[...] tracked, here Add post view counts to your WordPress page, here TurboCharging StatTraq, here All of these hacks are quite useful, especially blocking your own IP from being tracked, which allows for [...]

By: hansen

hansen — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:41:15 +0000

hehe ,i am using the last version of stattraq,but i have found that the “counter number” in the sidebar is different from the “user hit” in the /wp-srattraq/index.php,so i want the sidebar shows the “user hit” in the sidebar! what can i do for it?
so sorry that my spelling english is not so good!i come from chinese.

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By: shupe.ca » Blog Archive » StatTraq Plugin Speed Improvement

shupe.ca » Blog Archive » StatTraq Plugin Speed Improvement — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:12:50 +0000

[...] I can’t take credit for this one but I thoguh I would share it. Richard at Boakes.com pointed out a feature in MySql which can really improve performance o [...]

By: GaryP

GaryP — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 02:14:37 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I have just updated to the 1.0b version of StatTraq and see that this was not implemented in the new version.

I also added some new Visitor Counter case statements so that reports are not just for the physical hour, day, and month but for the last 60 minutes, 24 hours, and 30/31 days.

my StatTraq Notes

By: rich boakes

rich boakes — Tue, 31 May 2005 13:16:58 +0000

Absolutely. That woudl make sweeps for spam a whole lot more convenient. The alternative would be any kind of threading for PHP so heavy work could at least be offloaded to a background task.