Slimstat performance

  • Resolved jrogersfp

    (@jrogersfp)


    8 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve been seeing my wordpress site slow down a lot lately, and have been looking at ways to speed it up. I setup new relic, and it’s showing that slimstats is overwhelmingly using up PHP resources. The chart shows 90% of the application time is spent on slimstats. I’m doing server side logging (browser logging is blocked by too many of our visitors). Is there another suggestion for boosting performance? Data I may not need to collect in order to speed up the site?

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter jrogersfp

    (@jrogersfp)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Average call time is showing 74.7ms, while the next slowest item is .799ms. It’s not making the most calls, but at a rate of 3.35k over 30 min, and that puts it at 252 seconds consumed over the last 30 minutes, with the next highest item being 8.56 seconds.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by jrogersfp.
    Plugin Contributor Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    I would recommend switching the tracker to “Client Mode”, which acts just like Google Analytics and does not impact on your website performance as much as “Server Mode”. You can change this in Slimstat > Settings > Basic. Out of curiosity, have also configured the tables for “perfomance”? You can find this setting under the Maintenance tab.

    How many rows do you have in your wp_slim_stats table?

    Let me know if the above tweaks make any difference.

    Best,
    Jason

    Thread Starter jrogersfp

    (@jrogersfp)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    GA stats are far too misrepresentative of actual page views, and the client mode still gets blocked by users with uBlock, unless there is a tip there that I’m missing. My goal is to report metrics as accurately as possible.

    I’ll take a look at the performance settings.

    Here are the stats. I have been running it for 2 weeks now.

    Engine InnoDB
    wp_slim_stats 17.55 MB (61,856 records)
    wp_slim_events 1.52 MB (10,181 records)
    wp_slim_stats_archive 16 KB (0 records)
    wp_slim_events_archive 16 KB (0 records)

    Also browsercap.io shows up in the transaction trace as taking upwards of 1.590sec for a single page to load. Is it ok to uninstall browscap and still do server side?

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 8 months ago by jrogersfp.
    Plugin Contributor Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    8 years, 8 months ago

    the client mode still gets blocked by users with uBlock, unless there is a tip there that I’m missing.

    That is correct. But in certain situations it’s a necessary trade-off between accuracy and performance. Optimizing your server configuration (my.cnf) and memory allocated to PHP might also help, especially if you’re running many other plugins.

    Is it ok to uninstall browscap and still do server side?

    Yes. If you uninstall Browscap, Slimstat will automatically start using its built-in heuristic algorithm (not as precise as Browscap, of course) to detect your visitors’ browser and operating system.

    Best,
    Jason

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