On dim, 2003-02-02 at 01:56, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
I wonder that we (intl Wikipedias) still have the
access counter
running, while at the English WP it is disabled.
It was disabled mainly for performance reasons -- for every page view,
the database has to be updated with the incremented counter. And lately,
we've been getting A LOT of page views; when the updates get backed up
waiting for a slow save or other query, everything else has to wait. The
English WP gets the vast majority of the traffic, and thus causes the
majority of our problems. ;)
The other wikis still run them because there's little benefit to
disabling their counters -- lower traffic and smaller databases, so the
updates don't get backed up and there's no problem.
However, the counters are so limited that it's not clear just how useful
they are -- they don't distinguish been old and recent traffic; they
don't distinguish between one person loading a page over and over and
ten different people looking at it; they don't distinguish googlebot
from a human. They're probably going to get replaced with a smarter
counter at some point
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)