Should it be rendering the stylesheet URL like that?

Allen Gilliland-3 wrote:
> 
> yes, the hit count logic is "crude".
> 
> The purpose of the hit counting isn't to replace a true analytics tool 
> like Google Analytics.  If you want truly accurate metrics then you 
> absolutely should use something beyond what Roller offers.  The only 
> real purpose for Roller's hit counts is to provide some way of 
> identifying hot blogs.  It's imperfect, but it's enough to distinguish 
> the most popular blogs.
> 
> If you have some programming background then you can always submit a 
> patch as well.  I doubt there would be many objections to improving the 
> hit count tracking logic a bit.
> 
> -- Allen
> 
> 
> Mike Cavanaugh wrote:
>> We are using roller 4.0 with tomcat 6.0.14. We've noticed that some
>> hitcounts
>> produced by the getHotWeblogs macro don't correlate with google
>> analystics.
>> It looks like themes that have default stylesheets are getting the
>> stylesheets counted as hits which is overstating the hits.
>> 
>> For example, take the bizwatch theme. Displaying a site with that theme
>> will
>> cause these URLs to be loaded.
>> 
>> GET /roller/mikec/ HTTP/1.1" 200 12628
>> GET /roller/mikec/page/custom.css HTTP/1.1" 200 4109
>> 
>> Both, these URLs will pass through PageServlet trying to render them
>> which
>> also queues both to be in the hit count.
> 
> 

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