website development blog

[eFestivals]

Added in the last week are new high-resolution photo galleries. These only exist for the newest galleries where we have the high res photos easily available, and only display if using the desktop version of the website (mobile users get a lower-res version, the same as previously).

Just added is a 'most viewed' tabbed section on the right of the pages, which shows the most popular content pages over recent time. I currently have the time set to be the previous 18 hours, but I may tweak that as I see the results it's giving.

I'm currently mulling over whether to also add a 'most popular festivals' tab. This would select its results over a longer timescale, and be based on a count of all pages for a festival, and so (presumably) give different results to the 'most viewed' list. Before I get that far tho I have to come up with a plan for how to manage the quickly accumulating page requests data; ho-hum.

[eFestivals]

hmmmm ..... after putting those two things in place, I'd thought that any major load would be from logging the page requests, instead there's much more load coming from the queries onto the tables that have those logs.

So for the moment those 'most viewed' and 'popular festivals' tabs have been removed while I come up with a better plan.

[eFestivals]

A better plan was found, and so the 'most viewed' and 'popular festivals' tabs are back in on the content pages.

(however, the logs were reset so the data is from around 3pm today and not necessarily from the last 24 hours or last week).

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I've finally got around to updating the competitions pages, so that you don't have to give your username and password to enter when you're already logged in.