Speaker
Mr
Martijn Pieters
(Pareto)
Description
Linktally works around typical CMS roadblocks like high-read, low-write databases,
clustering and extensive caching to provide a approximation to page popularity.
Summary
In order to allow a CMS-based website to scale, developers need to avoid making
writes to the backend-database on every request. But what if you need to provide at
least a ranking of the most visited pages on your site? Add a squid cache and your
CMS may never see the majority of the visits as the cache serves up the pages
instead, which makes even a increment-counter-on-every-request solution unworkable.
Linktally aims to solve this problem. By periodically analysing front-end server
logfiles (Apache, Squid), a running tally can be kept for specific CMS-managed pages.
With a CMS-specific plugin, developers can add current rankings, split out by page
type and period, to a website.
Primary author
Mr
Martijn Pieters
(Pareto)
