Simetrical wrote:
On 8/30/06, Steve Summit <scs(a)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.