Title: User Refresh Time
Last modified: November 3, 2020

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# User Refresh Time

 *  [thomaschoi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomaschoi/)
 * (@thomaschoi)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-refresh-time/)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for the awesome plugin. I know that the default timer for refreshing the
   data is set to 5 minutes. Is there any downside to increasing the time to say
   60 minutes?

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-refresh-time/#post-13618404)
 * Hmm, the user will not stay on your page for 60 minutes to see it being refreshed.
   I think anything more than 5 minutes, it is good as not refreshing
 *  Thread Starter [thomaschoi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomaschoi/)
 * (@thomaschoi)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-refresh-time/#post-13618407)
 * We are a video platform so a lot of users stay 60+ minutes. I was just curious
   if increasing the time will be resource-intensive. But I guess it’s fine?
 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-refresh-time/#post-13623002)
 * Depends on your concurrent user and your server specs. If it is not causing CPU
   load, you can leave it.
 *  [zuken86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuken86/)
 * (@zuken86)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-refresh-time/#post-13951001)
 * [@gamerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/) Hi Lester, thank you for
   this awesome plugin. In your plugin, the default setting for refreshing is 5 
   mins. If I understand this correctly, this is for both – insert new users and
   remove users from the database.
 * Is there a way to have two separate refreshing times? One for inserting new users
   and one for removing users from the database?
 * I am working on a custom tracking and need to display online users within 5s 
   after they log in. But I also want to keep them in the database around 5-10 minutes.
 * Thank you!
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by [zuken86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zuken86/).
 *  [veganadvocate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/veganadvocate/)
 * (@veganadvocate)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/user-refresh-time/#post-14363055)
 * refresh makes sense on the admin screen area

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