Option to turn off "bumpviewcount"

I looked for an option to turn off counting image views, or statistics in general. Didn’t find anything.

I have a slideshow on my home page that gets viewed by every visitor. I see in my server logs that each slide displayed is triggering an Ajax action to “bumpviewcount” for each of those images.

I have been trying to find ways to decrease my server load. I don’t know if it’s significant, but this action happens numerous times per visitor IP per minute for each visitor to the home page.

I don’t use or display image counts, so not having them would be fine with me. I suppose that some functions like “top ten”, etc might need these numbers…

So, is there an easy way to turn off counting?
If not, could there be?

Thanks as always.

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