yes, the hit count logic is "crude".
The purpose of the hit counting isn't to replace a true analytics tool
like Google Analytics. If you want truly accurate metrics then you
absolutely should use something beyond what Roller offers. The only
real purpose for Roller's hit counts is to provide some way of
identifying hot blogs. It's imperfect, but it's enough to distinguish
the most popular blogs.
If you have some programming background then you can always submit a
patch as well. I doubt there would be many objections to improving the
hit count tracking logic a bit.
-- Allen
Mike Cavanaugh wrote:
We are using roller 4.0 with tomcat 6.0.14. We've noticed that some hitcounts
produced by the getHotWeblogs macro don't correlate with google analystics.
It looks like themes that have default stylesheets are getting the
stylesheets counted as hits which is overstating the hits.
For example, take the bizwatch theme. Displaying a site with that theme will
cause these URLs to be loaded.
GET /roller/mikec/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12628
GET /roller/mikec/page/custom.css HTTP/1.1" 200 4109
Both, these URLs will pass through PageServlet trying to render them which
also queues both to be in the hit count.
