Custom Total Views per autho

Hi guys,

I’m looking for some suggestions/help on the best way to achieve the following:

I have a plugin that is capturing the page views of each post view and that number is being captured per post. I also have a custom field that I created for each new user that I would like to hold the total views for that user that is calculated as the sum of all the views of all of their own articles. I thought this would be the best way instead of having to run a query every time I want to return the total of views per that author. What’s the best way to setup a process that will auto update that field on interval?

Or am I over thinking this and should just run a query on each author on each time I’m requesting that data?

Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!