The Statistics page is currently regenerated every time a user requests it. As the database grows larger, it takes longer to compile the data. It would be desirable to rebuild this page every night and point users to a static version of the page.
2013-10-04 update: After reviewing the code, I have decided that it's better to make the queries faster at the cost of counting Variant Titles.
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Implemented in biblio/stats.py 1.7. Installed in r2013-121 on 2013-10-04.
Closing.