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@nextscripts – Great, thanks. Hope you will succeed fixing it.

Sorry for not getting back on this. I have been working on some other projects recently. However, I did try it out on a testing site. Worked well as far as I could conclude. Look forward to your dragon-free 🙂 update.

Thanks for your reply on this. I concluded exactly what you are pointing out. It is a tradeoff between the amount of data stored and the feeling of an active site. One idea however, could be to make an option for update every 15 minutes. This would quadruple the data in the table. Recommended for high traffic sites would then be NOT to count total views based on this table, and, at the same time having the 15 minutes table automatically cleaned for entries more than 48 hours old or the like.

OK, I’ll try to explain it a little better. My aim is to make the top ten list dynamic within a shorter time period. Could be 12 hours or so. The 12 hours is no problem with your fine plugin. What I see, though, is that +1 views are counted “now”, while “old” views are recalculated only every hour. So every hour I’ll have a drop of views instead of a more “floating” calculation of the views.

I was testing by having a 4-hour period. And on the hour (8:00, 9:00 etc) these drops was experienced. Therefore, but is of course dependent on whether the tables include minutes, I was wondering if the plugin was set so the ajax only requested newer than 4 hour views on the hour.
Hope it make better sense now.

nvm
Found it (/includes/public/display-posts.php)

🙂 spot on. I had a missing closing tag for an advert!. Thx.