On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:50:25PM +0200, Jan Kulveit wrote:
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 02:04:37PM +0200, Jens Frank wrote:
Than, there must be some flaw in the implementation. Othervise the method (running some client-side javascript contacting statistics server) is industry standard (e.g. Google Analytics works this way).
Moreover, it could be easily done with modest hardware and existing statistics software. It's unnecessary to process the whole huge dataset - it would be enough to process random selection. Which can be easily done with JS ... the JS code would contact the statics server if some $random>0.999 for example.
That's exactly how the JS for the German wiki works and that's also why it doesn't work. With only a few requests you can fake the statistics, since every hit on the statistics server counts as 1000 page views.
Regards,
jens