Title: Server Load?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Server Load?

 *  [Michael Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/planetmike/)
 * (@planetmike)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-load-4/)
 * How much of a server load does Liveblog add? I’m watching my apache server access
   log, and it seems that I’m registering a request every 10 seconds from each browser.
   I have three browsers open right now, two I’m logged in as the admin/author, 
   and one I’m just a regular person looking at the Liveblog post. Is Liveblog going
   to scale if I have 100 people following the event? 500 people? How can I test
   the server load? Should I enable a WP cache (e.g. wp-super-cache) of some sort?
   Thanks, Mike
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liveblog/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/liveblog/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mohammad Jangda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batmoo/)
 * (@batmoo)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-load-4/#post-3566200)
 * Yep, it can be a pretty intensive plugin if you get a lot of traffic as each 
   user will do an ajax request every 10s (or more or less depending on how frequently
   you set the refresh interval; on WP.com, we set it to 3s).
 * Caching will go long way to help you scale this.
 *  Thread Starter [Michael Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/planetmike/)
 * (@planetmike)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-load-4/#post-3566202)
 * The event went well, with no noticeable problems. According to my apache logs,
   we had around 200 people watching the liveblog. I was posting from Safari on 
   my iPad. The only limitation I found was not being able to post photos. Archive
   is at: [http://washingtondc.showbizradio.com/2013/03/17/live-13th-watch/](http://washingtondc.showbizradio.com/2013/03/17/live-13th-watch/)
 * Where do you set the refresh interval?

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 * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael Clark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/planetmike/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-load-4/#post-3566202)
 * Status: not resolved