Statistics snafu
Today I installed YSlow, a pretty cool tool for spotting speed problems with webpages, it’s based on the 14 Rules for High Performance Websites.
Anyway, the results showed that I need to get the cache expire headers running on lighttpd and that also on lighttpd I wasn’t gzipping my content. Then I went onto the Swinging Forums and it popped up with a warning about a JavaScript error. It turns out that I hadn’t installed the Google Analytics code properly.
I’ve been a bit surprised by how poorly the forum has been performing, it seems fairly busy but it never shows up on the stats so of course now I know that it’s because it was being ignored! I’ve probably been underestimating my traffic by a fairly significant amount.
UPDATE: Just noticed that I’ve also missed the Google Analytics code from the chatroom. Some people spend hours and hours in the chatroom so I suspect that we’ll see a huge increase in the reported length of time people are staying on the site.