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Chuck Smith

13 Jan 2006 13 Jan '06

8:17 a.m.

I was recently asked by the Esperanto press for visitor statistics for the year. I realize that grabbing the statistics is a very traffic consuming process, but could we at least allow it to happen once a year so we can see how much traffic we're really getting or are we purging the logs regularly? Thanks, Chuck

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Brion Vibber

13 Jan 13 Jan

8:35 a.m.

Chuck Smith wrote:

I was recently asked by the Esperanto press for visitor statistics for the year. I realize that grabbing the statistics is a very traffic consuming process, but could we at least allow it to happen once a year so we can see how much traffic we're really getting or are we purging the logs regularly?

The logs produced are many gigabytes per day; there's simply no way we can store them for any long period. Currently we simply have logging disabled on the squid caches. It improves performance and we weren't able to do anything regularly with them anyway... Some nonintrustive statistical logging would probably be useful, but this hasn't happened yet. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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Evan Martin

7:39 p.m.

On 1/12/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Some nonintrustive statistical logging would probably be useful, but this hasn't happened yet.

Could you just log one in 1000 accesses? Hardly statistical in the fancy sense, but you'll end up with megabytes instead of gigabytes and you can multiply to get approximations of the actual numbers.

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Ashar Voultoiz

17 Jan 17 Jan

8:03 p.m.

Evan Martin wrote:

On 1/12/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Some nonintrustive statistical logging would probably be useful, but this hasn't happened yet.

Could you just log one in 1000 accesses? Hardly statistical in the fancy sense, but you'll end up with megabytes instead of gigabytes and you can multiply to get approximations of the actual numbers.

I dont think that can be done with squid :p -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/ IM: hashar(a)jabber.org ICQ: 15325080

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GerardM

8:16 p.m.

Hoi, Recently we had AOL day. Do we know how relevant the figures from Alexa are and, do we have a clue how relevant it is on a world scale. Of particular interest is also what their figures indicate about how relevant we are in a specific language.. The big suprise to me was the importance of the Russian Wiktionary.. Thanks, GerardM On 1/17/06, Ashar Voultoiz <hashar(a)altern.org> wrote:

Evan Martin wrote:

On 1/12/06, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:

Some nonintrustive statistical logging would probably be useful, but this hasn't happened yet.

Could you just log one in 1000 accesses? Hardly statistical in the fancy sense, but you'll end up with megabytes instead of gigabytes and you can multiply to get approximations of the actual numbers.

I dont think that can be done with squid :p -- Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar http://www.livejournal.com/community/wikitech/ IM: hashar(a)jabber.org ICQ: 15325080 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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