Razvan Stanga

Imagine a high traffic website that needs post views as an algorithm to display posts on the homepage. 
This website also uses <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/vcaching/" rel="ugc">Varnish Caching</a>. So we need an AJAX based post views counter. 
Now imagine a minimum 5000 concurrent users browsing the website, so we can’t use the default “AJAX in Plugins” as live updates on the backend using update_post_meta will be very painful for the backend.
So what can we do ?
What if all these post views counts will be done in memory using Redis ? 
Then we run a cornjob using WP-CLI to sync the post views count in Redis to the WordPress database.
Redis Post Views was born.

Redis Post Views

Highly optimized post views counter using Redis

Ilan Firsov

uPress

ezCache is the most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. From page caching to Redis Object Cache, Critical CSS to Speculative Loading — everything you need to make your site blazing fast.
Free Features: 
* ⚡ Page Caching — serve cached HTML instantly 
* 🖼️ Lazy Loading — defer offscreen images and iframes 
* 📝 HTML Minification — reduce page size 
* 🔮 Speculative Loading — Chrome prerenders pages before click 
* ⚡ 103 Early Hints — browser fetches CSS/JS before HTML arrives 
* 🩺 Site Diagnostic Tool — one-click performance analysis 
* 💾 Settings Backup/Restore — export/import configuration 
* 🔧 Development Mode — temporarily disable cache
Pro Features ($29/year): 
* 🔴 Redis Object Cache — store DB queries in RAM, 90% fewer queries 
* 🔴 Redis Full-Page Cache — serve pages from Redis in <1ms 
* 🎨 Critical CSS — inline above-the-fold CSS, defer the rest 
* 🎨 CSS/JS Minification & Combination 
* 🖼️ WebP Image Conversion — save 25-34% bandwidth 
* 🚀 Cache Preloading — warm cache automatically 
* 🌐 CDN Integration — URL rewriting for static assets 
* 🗄️ Database Cleanup — revisions, drafts, transients 
* 💓 Heartbeat Control — reduce server load 
* 🔗 DNS Prefetch & Preconnect

ezCache

Lightning-fast WordPress optimization — page caching, Redis Object Cache, Critical CSS, WebP images, CSS/JS optimization, and 15+ performance tools.

Redis Post Views vs ezCache