Performance issue

My site became very slow. When I look at what is happening using query monitor, the query that takes the largest amount of code is akways an update meta data from Visual Portfolio, even if the post that is being shown doesn’t include any VP gallery.

Here is the call stack:

update_metadata()
    wp-includes/meta.php:271
    update_post_meta()
    wp-includes/post.php:2158
    Visual_Portfolio_Custom_Post_Meta::update_views_count()
    wp-content/plugins/visual-portfolio/classes/class-custom-post-meta.php:294
    do_action('wp_head')
    wp-includes/plugin.php:478
    wp_head()
    wp-includes/general-template.php:3009
    load_template('wp-content/themes/vantage/header.php')
    wp-includes/template.php:730
    locate_template()
    wp-includes/template.php:676
    get_header()
    wp-includes/general-template.php:48

The site is running WP 5.8, PHP 7.4, Vantage theme.

Let me know if you need more information, or there is some easy way to get rid of this update.