Weblog entry #127 for Steve
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There hasn't been much work on the site recently, mostly because it has been working properly on the whole. (Although system load is getting worryingly high.) I've have committed some minor changes recently:
- Styling on the foot of weblog entries is different.
- Matching fixups on the foot of entries on the Planet Debian-Administration
- Some minor SQL optimisations
The SQL optimisations still need work, but I'm down to making only one query when somebody logged in requests the front page which is quite good!
More optimisations will require a bit of profiling, and logging. I've written a custom version of the Singleton::DBI object I use for database access which logs each call and the length of time it takes - that is very useful for profiling things and seeing what is slow. Unfortunately this extra job slows the class down significantly - which means I can only profile my "test" installations at home, and not the real site. Oops.
Still I've learnt useful things and discovered that some areas of the site are not cached as thoroughly as I'd like. Right now I'm using 128Mb of memory to cache various areas of the site - if it makes a significant different I'm prepared to devote more memory to it, but it is a bit hard to tell how things are doing.
Current stats suggest 5200ish registered users and a significantly larger number of anonymous users.
I also need to finish tidying up the site adverts - the backend is a huge hairy mess and needs to be improved. Still things work so its not a huge deal.
I'm not sure whether to be pleased that only a few people are using the adverts, or disappointed..
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When I am about to write an advert, I never seem to be able to find the URL to do it in - and for a more casual reader than I it could be quite difficult.
Come on, folks! People actualle see the free ads and click on them!
/Christian
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You could be right, although on the front-page there is a link, currently, in the "News" section. So far I figure most people go:
FAQ -> Site Adverts - although if there is an existing advert being shown there is a link to the FAQ entry there.
I almost had a link "Adverts" next to "About" in the site-header, but I figured since that was present on every page it might be giving too much emphasis to them.
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Secondly, I just had an idea for styling the text under the weblog entries. Will see if it is good enough and let you know.
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It is more obvious on the planet. But now I'm using CSS to right-align the text at the foot of the entry, and I've placed a line above that section.
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