Colorful Free Republic Daily Site Statistics

[John Robinson]

With the conclusion of last week, two years of Free Republic site statistics are now available for comparison. Watch the forum grow 300-400% in those two years. A remarkable achievement for a site advertised almost solely word-of-mouth.

Click here to dazzle yours eyes and mind. A bountiful cornucopia, statistically pleasing, matrix of pure joy awaits.

[John Robinson]

Just don't stare at them for too long, you'll see a pink moon if you do.

[John Robinson]

You got that right. Hehe.

[Howlin]

You're the exception to EVERY rule, honey.

[lavaroise]

The election Rat attack got us the heads up and after that Freerepublic kept going on the momentum that is now increasing again.

[TLBSHOW]

I like the way it goes up up up..........

[EternalVigilance]

"Wile E. Lazamataz, Genius."

All of that, and humble too! Wowzers!!

/weak attempt at Laz level humor

;-)

Thanks once again for all of your hard work, John...it is truly appreciated.

[MadelineZapeezda]

That's because the page is still loading...........try waiting another 10 seconds

[StriperSniper]

Looks great!

When this number spikes, it's a fair indication that a web search engine (like google) has been indexing Free Republic.)

Like the spike on Sept.10?

[Valin]

Lazamataz He's not concieted he's convinced.

[Lazamataz]

Just don't stare at them for too long, you'll see a pink moon if you do.

Or blue diamonds.

Or green clovers.

They're Magically Delicious!

[Lazamataz]

All of that, and humble too! Wowzers!!

Just remember, Wile E. Coyote always gets whacked by an anvil. ;^)

[MadelineZapeezda]

What happens to your stats if I don't log off daily?
(to others this is not the start of a rash of log off jokes )

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

I like it! Green and purple are my favorite colors. Teal is nice too. Much softer than before. The "available charts" box is very easy to read too.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

CREAM ALWAYS RISES TO THE TOP.

[Focault's Pendulum]

John, this is more than colorful -- it is coloricious! My boss has sent me home for the day because I have been licking the screen (tastes GREAT!).

Remind me not invite you down here for dinner.

[EternalVigilance]

...or falls off the cliff...

:-)

Thanks for the laughs, my friend...have a great day!

[John Robinson]

Absolutely nothing.

Technically speaking, logging in and logging off only affect an identity cookie stored within your web browser.

Which brings up a bit of a misnomer in the back-side statistics. "Distinct Logins" and etc is actually the number of distinct identity cookies the web server recorded that day. Which is why the number continued to climb at a pace which exceeded other statistics: often, people create an account, log in, get the identity cookie, post a message, and then go back into lurk mode for weeks or months. Other than demonstrating this effect, "Distinct Logins" was pretty useless. As most of the back-side statistics proved to be.

The difference between front-side and back-side. Front-side is the first Free Republic program your web browser contacts. The front-side valiantly defends the back-side from becoming swamped by attempting to satisfy your request by consulting it's massive cache of documents. However, should the requested document not reside within the front-side's cache, the front-side can do nothing else but to pass your request to the back-side (from which it will often remember the page in order to satisfy subsequent requests.)

If you're still following, it should now be obvious that the back-side didn't see enough of Free Republic traffic to accurately report statistics. And hence, the discontinuance of the back-side statistics.

[John Robinson]

I aim to please. :-)

[Havisham]

I finally clicked an article with the 'Quote of the Day link. Jim couldn't do it on his own inefinitely, but now we know why he's the best omniscient editor a forum ever had.

Question: Is it no longer preferred etiquette to imbed (VANITY) in the headline of such, and "Nothing follows" when nothing does? This excellent practice seems to have become nearly extinct. ;^)

[John Robinson]

Btw, I should mention the back-side is a little piggy. It takes quite a bit of processing power to generate some of these pages. The more pages the front-side can satisfy from cache, the less the whole machine has to work.

Also, since the front-side is a very efficiently designed web server, it is not very expensive (CPU resource wise) to trickle down a 500Kb post over a 28.8Kbps connection. If that takes 10 minutes, it does not bother the front-side. The front-side should easily be able to handle thousands of such requests simultaneously.

OTOH, the back-side is far more limited in the number of requests it can serve at once. 65 at the moment. And each one is piggy. The front-side acts as an intermediary, quickly slurping everything the back-side has to give, as fast as the back-side can give it, in order to free the back-side to handle another request. The front-side can then trickle this down to the browser without bothering the back-side again.

And there you have it. More than you ever wanted to know about the technical matters of Free Republic. I should write a book.