Statistics

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

I have noticed a few problems which can potentially compromise the accuracy of some statistics on the forum. I don't think they would be security vulnerabilities as such but it is possible for things like search engines and web crawlers and over-anxious constant-refresh freaks to affect at least the following statistics:

1. Thread views
2. Profile page visits
3. User current activity

They get updated under the following conditions:

1. When refreshed and/or reloaded (cache and cookies etc do not need to be cleared)
2. The user current activity statistic does not get properly updated until several minutes later
3. The thread views and profile visits statistics get updated when the same user visits the profile - eg for private messages etc.
4. A user's profile visits and thread views for threads started by the user gets updated when he/she visits their own profile or a thread that they started.

These are very strange and to me indicates the possibility that the statistics are quite inaccurate. I would think that it would be better if they were about how many users participated/viewed in the thread and how many visitors in a user's profile - one user per increment if you know what I mean.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Originally Posted by Protium

Not sure why any of this is important.

Spyderbots are ignored BTW

So is that what the spider accounts are for?

I sort of had the impression these statistics affect other parts of the forum such as the way the threads are positioned (like some threads appearing on top of others etc) in a forum.

UPDATE: This doesn't seem to be the case - but I must admit sometimes it can be helpful for me to determine whether or not somebody has noticed a new thread. That isn't too important but I just like knowing the little things like this.

[atheist_angel]

Originally Posted by Protium

technical error.. I don't count.. It was Dandare who posted the 10,000 post

Speaking of stats, we're approaching 30, 000...
30 is normally considered some kind of milestone.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

There's something big about 10K and 20K and 30K and 40K and 50K will be a huge race.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Time to declare that as a public holiday then.
AFA Forums 50000th Post Anniversary
AFA Forums Reached the 50000th Post Day
Or something like that.

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

Maybe even a CD-ROM containing the content of all the 50000 posts and threads...

[Sir Patrick Crocodile]

1. Santa Clause
2. Easter Bunny
3. Spilling green dye into the ocean for St Patrick
4. AFA50K Orang-utan