Hi Team, Roller trunk still maintains a "Referrers" page for each blog
created, which gives a list of external sites which had someone click on
a link taking the person to the Roller blog. This list is maintained
for 24 hours only, resetting to zero at the end of each day. This
information is populated from a database table and a background process
that writes all incoming referrers to that table.
Nowadays people who are interested in that information use free Google
Analytics, which is soooooo much better (stores data for months for
free), and I see no reason for us to reinvent the wheel by trying to
duplicate their service. Those who don't care about this information
won't be on Google Analytics, but they won't be caring about that
Referrer page either, so that page really isn't helping anyone today.
So I'd like to pull out the Referrer page and move the unrelated Blog
Hit reset button on that page to the Maintenance page. Also, remove the
background process and related classes involved with writing to the
referrer table, and update the User Guide mentioning Google Analytics.
We won't have a referrer table anymore in 5.1, and the 5.0-to-5.1
migration script will just ignore the 5.0 referrer table, so it will sit
dormant in 5.1 installations. By removing the SQL processes related to
storing the referrers, it will help speed up Roller while reducing
database space and memory needs, making it easier and cheaper to deploy
on ISPs/PaaSs.
WDYT?
Regards,
Glen
- Remove referrers page from trunk? Glen Mazza
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