discuss: Per HOWTO webhit counters?
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Per HOWTO webhit counters?
From:
"David A. Ranch" ####@####.####
Date:
27 Nov 2005 21:23:13 -0000
Message-Id: <438A23B1.1060002@trinnet.net>
I agree that there isn't anything we can do about the mirrors but it
would be nice if the main tldp.org site did provide some counters per
HOWTO (total and per-format). I would consider it more of a statistical
data point than an authoritative counter.
--David
Machtelt Garrels wrote:
>
> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, David A. Ranch wrote:
>
>
>>>Hello Everyone,
>>>
>>>I'm curious if the TLDP servers track and account for web hits by HOWTO.
>>> Specifically, it would be interesting to see which HOWTOs are the most
>>>in-demand, which formats are the most desired, total hits per HOWTO
>>>(regardless of the format, etc.
>>>
>>>Is there such a thing?
>
>
> I tried to setup a system with blank little tracer images in all html
> pages of my guides, but then I got divorced and lost the log data. After
> that, I removed the tracers from the source again because it might be nice
> for your self-esteem as an author to know, but apart from that I didn't
> think this was very important.
>
> We looked into this a while ago and I believe we could have access to or a
> copy of the iBiblio logs, but that does not tell us anything about the
> mirrors. Hence the tracers, but I also got a bit of criticism for that
> because it didn't say anywhere that access to the pages of the guides was
> being monitored.
>
> Tille.
>
> --
> Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
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>
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