The CentralNotice pages/js use client-side caching, so not ever page view will actually spawn a new request to the squid servers.
Ryan Kaldari On 10/22/10 4:00 PM, Michael Peel wrote: > On 22 Oct 2010, at 02:02, Erik Zachte wrote: > > >> A quick update on our inflated page view stats: >> >> Ryan's hypothesis that deployment of the new CentralNotice banner >> loader had something to do with it has been confirmed. >> >> So those extra page views were actually internally generated requests, >> which accessed just two new special pages in huge amounts. >> >> Special:BannerController and Special:BannerListLoader >> >> http://stats.grok.se/en/201010/Special%3ABannerListLoader >> http://stats.grok.se/en/201010/Special%3ABannerController >> > I'm a little surprised that those numbers are so low. ~70 million page views > a day is only about 10-15 times the number of page views that the en.wp main > page gets, and is way less than the number of page views that Wikipedia gets > each day. It's also surprising that the two pages get different numbers of > page views a day. Is there caching going on here, or are these pages not > loaded upon every access to the site via other means (are they only called by > the occasional centralnotice perhaps)? > > Mike Peel > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
