[Plugin: WordPress Hit Counter] Severe bug with WordPress 3.2.1

I’ve been using WordPress Hit Counter Version 2.6 for some time and have really liked it. However over the past few days my WordPress sites have slowed to a crawl with pages taking 60+ seconds to load. I found WordPress Hit Counter Version 2.6 to be the culprit.

When checking the MYSQL processes there were a list of processes with a “sleep” command. Every time a page was requested MYSQL would sleep for 60 seconds before serving the page.

Deactivating the WordPress Hit Counter immediately fixed the problem! Pages load in 1 second rather than 61 seconds with the counter.

Please find a fix for this as I really like the counter.