Simetrical wrote:
On 8/30/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Well, no, not just "anyone". :-)
Anyone *could*. Most people just wouldn't know *how*.
Ah. So you can high jump 8 feet, can you?
And it's very difficult (if not impossible) to guarantee that something gets kept for only a day.
If it's possible to guarantee it gets kept, it's possible to guarantee it only gets kept for a day.
False (unless you're splitting hairs).
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.
Not sure what you mean here.
What effect would it have if I reloaded the page fifty times? I wouldn't send fifty messages to the view-logging server instead of one; I would have a 4.88% chance of sending *one* message, rather than a 0.1% chance.
Okay, but that's true only as long as (a) the stats factor is in the thousands, which it doesn't have to be (and isn't for some wikimedia projects, and (2) nobody's trying to deliberately skew the results. But also, it only *matters* if you're trying to keep (not discard) the extra hits, i.e. if you do want to say something like "M people viewed it N times" as opposed to "M people viewed it at least once". If you're interested in discarding redundant hits, it obviously doesn't matter whether the browser or the server does it.