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I seem to have issues when I turn on category product count, has any one else had this? if you turn it on, the spin wheel appears and the site is very very slow responding, does anyone know how many resources this is using when its turned on?

Please see the graph for feedback? once turned on

Any tech people answer this please before i look at it and change the count code? Tell me it does'nt recount every click of a mouse?

This has been a problem for many years. It has never been resolved every one just says take the count off. It counts every product in every category and sub category on every page load.

Not good, store should load and thats it, on clicking a category that has been updated, it should then count that category.

jrfcomputing wrote:This has been a problem for many years. It has never been resolved...

Not quite correct, it has been 'corrected', at least, for the v.1.5.6.x Versions, by use of s small modification, CACHING the product amount numbers, and call it's Value first, by the prog, from the Cache, if one exists. Since then, there is NO real important difference, between Counting beeing switched on, or off. OC does not shut it off completely, anyway, in some places, like Pagebreak, it's used, to make it work.

And even, if there would, Customers will always appreciate to know, what's in the BOX...! I forget the link, but you may find it here, I run a testshop with 15 K active Product. Counting switched on, and cached, and all my Mod's used, are linked on the Front Page, further down...

http://www.bigmax.ch/shop/

Either, it works the same way, on V.2.x , or then, it's already built-in, or then, it should be a DEFAULT Option, at least, I guess...

Good Luck
Ernie

either>? lock down on tight arse godaddy, too mean resources, please, answer on a server level... they shut you down due too resource issue, is is efficient or not the way it is? not being argumentative but constructive?>

Is the my cache working? how i check?>

gsc1ugs wrote:either> is it efficient or not the way it is? not being argumentative but constructive?>

It depends. if one runs a default OC Shop, with 10 Categories, each containing 5 Subcategories, and every one contains 20 Products, and the Site serves a two digit amount of Customers a day, I guess, one will never have a Problem, with GoDaddy or whoever. Like a regular Automobile, on a regular Road, it just run's.

Anything else is a Matter of Tuning. But don't expect to find a well done, fully equipped, and highly tuned Race Car, in Front of a Car Outlet, just waiting to be picked up, for free!

Not being argumentative either, just hopefully understud.
Ernie

PS. Check my image, and you'll find your Cache Section. If it contains 'stuff', the cache works.

OpenCart does a recursive scan on all the categories. That's resource heavy. If you have a lot of categories and products your best bet is to just disable the count.

Have done thxs