Kunena 6.2.6 released

The Kunena team has announce the arrival of Kunena 6.2.6 [K 6.2.6] which is now available for download as a native Joomla extension for J! 4.4.x/5.0.x. This version addresses most of the issues that were discovered in K 6.1 / K 6.2 and issues discovered during the last development stages of K 6.2

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Question Disable Hits Recording for performance

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5 years 2 months ago - 5 years 2 months ago #1 by ianrispin
Disable Hits Recording for performance was created by ianrispin
Hi,

I have just migrated from an old fireboard forum to Kunena.

In 2007/8 I made quite a few custom changes to the fireboard code to improve the website performance.

One of these was to disable hits counting.

The reason for this is very simple - having a hit counter means that for every forum page viewed the database has to be updated.

I reckon that my forum (and many others) get almost 1000 times as many views as there are new posts/replies created.

So having a hit counter increases the number of updates to the database by 1000 times.

If i get 10 new posts a day i only need update the forum database 10 times.

If i want to track registered users viewing posts to set "read" vs "unread" i may need to update database a few hundred times.

BUT If i record all hits by guests and robots etc and have 10,000 pageviews a day then i update the database 10,000 times.

I know I can hide the hits in the CSS

but is there a config option to NOT record hits for performance reasons?

if not could someone please let me know which code file contains the command to record hits in the database when a guest views a page - so I can comment it out.
Last edit: 5 years 2 months ago by ianrispin.

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5 years 2 months ago #2 by Slacker
Replied by Slacker on topic Disable Hits Recording for performance
I use JotCache it cachees also Kunena forum posts thus making them faster for non-logged in viewers. This decreases the load on database, which almost always is the bottle neck.

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