Title: Performance question
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Performance question

 *  [John Dao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tiggerlu/)
 * (@tiggerlu)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-question/)
 * Haven’t tried the plugin yet, just wondering about performance, as every view
   is a read / write to the database wich equates to # of posts X number of concurrent
   users X elapsed time. So a real time performance penalty but also a large DB 
   over time.
 * I’m not being critical, i really want to use the plugin – just wondering how 
   it stacks up over time.
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postviews/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postviews/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-question/#post-4337851)
 * Yeap you are right, many large sites do not recommend you to use WP-PostViews
   if you have high traffic.
 * The other way is to use a caching plugin so read (not real time anymore) is cache
   and for the write, the plugin will spawn an AJAX call to update the view count

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 * Last reply from: [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/performance-question/#post-4337851)
 * Status: not a support question