On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:24:51PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/30/06, Simetrical
<Simetrical+wikitech(a)gmail.com> wrote:
However, this wouldn't require that, and
indeed, a server-side
solution would be impossible: 99.9% of page hits won't go to the
server to start with. Since JavaScript is being used anyway, you can
just have the script only run the first time you visit a given page
per session.
Actually now that I think about this, does this actually sufficiently model
the data we want to collect? Are we interested only in "how many people
visit a certain page" and not also in "how many times a certain page is
viewed"? If 5 users spend a whole day arguing back on forth on Wikipedia
talk:Pokémon, is 5 or 200 a more interesting/useful/relevant metric for that
page?
Yes.
We should probably start thinking about exactly why we
want this data, and
what we should do with the results of it.
Indeed; they're two separate, and both useful, measurements needed by
different audiences.
Cheers,
-- jra
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