Is there a way to restart LWP::Simple or make it load faster? 
use LWP::Simple;
$ipaddress2 = get ('http://www.domain.com/ip-address.txt');
$number = get ('http://www.domain.com/counter.txt');

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makes the script take about 15 seconds to load vs less than a second with out it. Yet on another domain on the same server, it doesn't slow it down. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple;

$ipaddressmain2main = get ('http://www.domain.com/ip-address.txt');
$numbermain = get ('http://www.domain.com/counter.txt');
$ipaddressmain = "/home/site1337/public_html/ip-address.txt";
$countermain = "/home/site1337/public_html/counter.txt";
$database = "/home/site1337/public_html/logs.shtml";
{
  open(numbermain,"$countermain");
  $num = <numbermain>;
  close(numbermain);

  if ($ipaddressmain2main == $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'})  { $num; } else { $n
+um++; }

   open(NEWFILE,">$ipaddressmain") || die $!;
   print NEWFILE "$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}\n";
   close(NEWFILE);

   open(NUM,">$countermain") || die $!;
   print NUM "$num";
   close(NUM);
}
$shortdate = `date +"%D %T %Z"`; 
chop ($shortdate);
    open (DATABASE,">>$database");
        print DATABASE "$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'} - $shortdate - $ENV{'HTTP_
+USER_AGENT'} - <A HREF=\"http://$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}$ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}\
+">http://$ENV{'HTTP_HOST'}$ENV{'REQUEST_URI'}</a> - <A HREF=\"$ENV{'H
+TTP_REFERER'}\">$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}</a>\n";
    close(DATABASE);

$page = $in{'page'};

if ($page eq 'XXXXXXX') {
   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<EOM;

EOM
}

elsif ($page eq 'XXXXX') {
print <<EOM;

EOM
}

else {
use LWP::Simple;
$ipaddress2 = get ("http://www.domain.com/stats/$page/ip-address.txt")
+;
$number = get ("http://www.domain.com/stats/$page/counter.txt");
$ipaddress = "/home/site1337/public_html/stats/$page/ip-address.txt";
$counter = "/home/site1337/public_html/stats/$page/counter.txt";
{
  open(NUMBER,"$counter");
  $num = <NUMBER>;
  close(NUMBER);
  if ($ipaddress2 == $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'})  { $num; } else { $num++; }
   open(NEWFILE,">$ipaddress") || die $!;
   print NEWFILE "$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}\n";
   close(NEWFILE);
   open(NUM,">$counter") || die $!;
   print NUM "$num";
   close(NUM);
}
   print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print <<EOM;
PAGE CONTENT
EOM
   exit;
}

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In reply to use LWP::Simple slows script down. by Jesse Smith

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