Title: Shrink database
Last modified: November 7, 2018

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# Shrink database

 *  [leisegang](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leisegang/)
 * (@leisegang)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shrink-database/)
 * Current size of your counter table wp_cpd_counter is 953.33 MB.
    1.278.846 Total
   visitors
 * i would like to shrink this database and “sum up” the views
    How do i do this?
 * when i click the Collect old data
    it generates a 60mb file under backup
 * But how do i shrink this database? is there a simlpe guide? i am OK with deleting
   all data older than 1 month IF its summed up.

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