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)