As much as I like the functionality of this mod, it had such a performance hit on my board I had to disable it. My board felt sluggish recently, so I paid closer attention to the Microstats at the bottom saying how many seconds & queries it took to create the page. With this plug-in enabled, it would sometimes take 4 or 5 seconds to display my forum home page, (with only 14 queries). It was never less than 3 seconds.
After disabling this hack, it is back down to between 0.4 and 1.0 seconds to create the home page, with 13 queries. This hack reported that I was getting about 2000 guests visiting per day (vast majority were spiders), and my server load never reports over 0.8, so it likely wasn't a server load problem.
Any suggestions on indexing certain tables to improve performance?
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