On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
A suggestion for caching: the home page, [[Main Page]], never should include links to nonexistent pages. Could that be cached (in standard stylesheet), e.g., as /index.html?
I did this manually during the slashdotting a couple months back. It was probably a bigger help then, as a LARGE chunk of our hits came from one direct link to http://www.wikipedia.org/ from the /. article.
Currently, the main page accounts for 1.2% of hits. Not zero by any means, but not _that_ huge. Compare with 2.71% in January, where the whole month's average was shot up by the /. story spike.
It's not really an issue of nonexistent links, though, but of general things that change: news items are added daily, the date counter changes on its own daily, the article count changes constantly. And of course the login issue.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)