Can the Page View plugin affect our system performance?

[Martin James]

We're thinking about purchasing the Page View plugin to track all our traffic but I'm concerned this will quickly put a strain on our system performance based on how much data it will capture into the database.

Can someone advice?

[Suren Raj]

Hi, Martin.

The plugin might affect the performance of the page if the macro load big amount of content to one page. We would suggest you to use the free trial to review it before you buy it.

[Minh Tran]

@Martin James From my own experience, the page view tracker will need to add extra information for a page depending on what it will provide. However it will be proportional to the number of pages you will have in your confluence instance. Those are often stored in database

What these kind of addons may cause is to slow down your Confluence instance because it needs to track all traffic from your users in order to calculate the page view, user, ...

Yeah, you can take @Suren Raj 's advice to use a trial version first and see

[Sloan]

Hi @Martin James

From past experience add-ons like Page View or Viewtracker do not use much disk space, they usually store their tracked data in the database. And it is not much since I assume it only contains the user, time, etc.

But @Suren Raj's suggestion is very good. Evaluate and test the add-on and it's macros before using it productive.

The add-on might have impact on loading times. But it should be minimal.

Regards
Niklas

[Martin James]

Thanks for your answers.

I shall give this a try.