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I use EE for some parts of hockeyfights.com
The home page is one of those parts, which gets about 50k views per day and is already happy I fleeped de sweetch.

Wow thanks!

Just some specs after turning off all tracking:

Old (static) page load: 0.1599 sec
New (static) page load: 0.1146 sec

Old (news) page load: 0.2539 sec
New (news) page load: 0.1687 sec

How much performance improvement can be expected?  Nico, thanks for posting the performance implications.  Does anyone else have a measurement?

At TrendHunter.com, we get really spikey traffic (200,000 views / day as an average, but spikes of 500,000+.  The problem with the spikes is that they get really concentrated into a few given hours.  For a while, we were getting on the front page of Yahoo.com and tried desperately to solve the traffic problem, but we could never handle drinking from the fire hose. 

I think that an ideal approach would be to have the option to create flat files for the hardest hit pages.

Whenever I’d had spikes like that, I just wind up taking snapshots and creating flat files of some of the most heavily trafficked pages wherever possible.  It’s manual, and tedious, but it keeps things going.

😠 Geesh, i have missed this one totally! Good news.

Is there a way to keep post-tracking “alive” while you disable your User Tracking? It disables from showing and i think, tracking post counts also what i just tried and saw.

And i guess disabling Enable Weblog Entry View Tracking and Enable Template Hit Tracking stops Total Combined Page Hits from growing, right!

Anycase, i use Analytics so this was good news that i havent read for some odd reason!

Cheers:
- Tuittu

I noticed that this is “universal”. I use MSM and there is no Per/Site for it. It affects all the Sites.

Yours:
- Tuittu

I noticed that this is “universal”. I use MSM and there is no Per/Site for it. It affects all the Sites.

Yours:
- Tuittu

Since all of your Sites are in the same database, that’s very much necessary, since if one Site’s traffic is too much for your db server to keep up with, the others will be equally adversely affected.

Makes sense. I just was thinking to take off the online users from all other sites than my primary. But as said, you just wrote the truth that i didnt think first place.

Thanks:
- Tuittu

What happens if I use a piece of php code to update my view_count?  Will that negate the advantages because it will still lock up the tables?  Or will it stop updating?

<? global $DB; $query = $DB->query(“UPDATE exp_weblog_titles SET view_count_one = (view_count_one + 1) WHERE entry_id = ‘{entry_id}’”); ?>

It cannot prevent your PHP code from executing, no.  If you want the same protection, you’d need to check the state of those preferences to determine whether or not you wanted to run the UPDATE.