Why install wordpress statistics plugins should be avoided?

WordPress statistics plugin is a plugin for counting and recording all visitors to our website including noting all visitor activity including: IP, country of origin, ISP, hostname, visitor's origin, visitor duration, page opened, browser used etc Installing a statistics plugin for our wordpress website is a dilemma and even parasitic because the bigger the traffict of our website then the statistical plugin will spend our server resources and even make our database becomes big.

If the visitor is just a bit static plugin may not cause problems, but if visitors are many (eg 1000 visitors simultaneously) then this statistical plugin will spend resources, especially CPU and IO database because it will record the continuous activities of visitors until they come out of the page . Of course this high resource usage may result in your hosting account being suspended from shared hosting. From the server monitoring experience, websites using statistical plugins will be synonymous with high read / write IO database usage because of continuous read / write data of visitors. In addition the statistical plugin will make the database to be large because it is used to record visitor data.

Visitor statistics are very important, but keeping track of the internal scripts inside the website (including plugins) is the wrong choice. The solution is we use an external service to record our visitors, the examples that the majority used are Google Analytics and Histats, getclicky.com, whoamoung. In addition to these services, there are many other services to calculate visitor statistics but google Analytics is a service that we recommend and also highly recommended by google.

By using the services of external statistics we no longer need to worry about our hosting resources run out by statistics plugin for enginenya outside our website
and does not make our wordpress database swollen because visitor data is stored on the external statistical services server.

Basically all the visitor statistics plugin is spent resource