+1 - Dave
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
