Originally Posted by Jakez

Does a large database have the most impact on page load times or cpu load?

I have a table with about 1,000,000 entries so far, every time an image on the page is clicked it inserts an entry, and on every page load it groups the table by 'img' and then sorts by the amount of entries (or clicks) for each img, then displays them in order on the page, about 50 thumbs.

I'm mostly concerned about how long it takes the page to load, does sorting this big of a table make the page load a lot slower or is it mostly unnoticeable?

The table (size is about 70mb):
(
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`time` int(11) NOT NULL,
`img` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`country` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
`c_ip` varchar(15) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=INNODB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;