On 8/30/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@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?
We should probably start thinking about exactly why we want this data, and what we should do with the results of it.
Steve