andrys wrote:flemmingbo wrote:cassiar wrote:It seems there's no improvement when visiting the profile page (40 seconds more or less, as usual).
I think the first time during a day that you visit the profile page it is slow because it is creating new statistics for you. All the next loads of your profile on that day are fast - next day the first load is slow again. I just loaded mine at it was slow (30 secs) the first time, every refresh since then is super fast.
I and others have proposed to turn off the automatic stat routine and create a link so people have to manually refresh.
regards,
Flemming Bo
Flemming, I wrote a pmail to that effect Sunday to management. I think it's clear
that many do not want stats automated when we go to Profile -- because on that
page are the private pmail, the comments, and the guestbook. Of more interest
to many.
BUT if someone does want stats, the delay between getting to profile page
and clicking on Link would be almost nothing.
I've changed my own pbase bookmark (for my own access) to
http://www.pbase.com/comments
to at least see any gallery comments quickly. I click on profile later
only if I want to see private pmails. Almost never do I want stats
(because statcounter is so good and pbase made that easy for us,
for which I'm still grateful).
It just seems to me that it would save so much unnecessary processing
time if accessing Profile page didn't automatically generate all those stats,
nice as they are. I'm doing my bit
I think you guys are completely wrong. The numbers you see are not calculated on the fly when you open profile page. These numbers are counters, and they are stored as a counters. Counters are calculated when the change happened, not when they accessed. When they accessed (as on profile page) they are just retrieved. Retrieval of the counter is the simplest and fastest operation. It's nothing to do with the problem of loading profile page. The fact that all other pages load slowly just proves that.
Andrys, I do not quite understand why you took this upon yourself to decide for everyone on PBase what they want. If this is the real problem then there should be a poll, which decide who wants what.