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The views tally has been disabled, possibly permanently.
We are exceptionally unique as far as "discussion boards" go. More than 80% (sometimes up to 90%) of all our daily traffic is from non-members. And during the month of October, we've been averaging about 100,000 visits a day, with an average page-views (of content pages) over 550,000 daily. That's a crap-load of activity.
Incrementing the views counter requires a write action to the database on every one of those page-loads. And as any database administrator will tell you, write (updates) are the most intensive tasks. We were experiencing some performance issues, and once we disabled the views-tally, the issues were cleared up.
So it's the constant balancing act of ensuring all our content is available in a fast and efficient way, along with a long list of unique services for members.
Originally posted by maria_stardust
That used to be a feature on the boards. However, as the boards grew it became a burden on the servers and was abandoned. Granted it was a nifty feature, but added little to no value in the long run.
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
reply to post by Doomsday 2029
Posted by SO on another thread:
The views tally has been disabled, possibly permanently.
We are exceptionally unique as far as "discussion boards" go. More than 80% (sometimes up to 90%) of all our daily traffic is from non-members. And during the month of October, we've been averaging about 100,000 visits a day, with an average page-views (of content pages) over 550,000 daily. That's a crap-load of activity.
Incrementing the views counter requires a write action to the database on every one of those page-loads. And as any database administrator will tell you, write (updates) are the most intensive tasks. We were experiencing some performance issues, and once we disabled the views-tally, the issues were cleared up.
So it's the constant balancing act of ensuring all our content is available in a fast and efficient way, along with a long list of unique services for members.
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[edit on 23 Apr 2009 by schrodingers dog]
Originally posted by Doomsday 2029
But what if my message got 1,000,00 views on text?
If I make avideo and it gets 1,000,000 views... atleast I will know.
It doesn't slow down the server = myth