Popularity statistics

[Vassil Dichev <vd...@apache.org>]

Hello folks,

I've just committed an actor in trunk which collects popularity stats,
currently it works for resent messages, which are displayed in the
right sidebar of the main page. With the current design statistical
information is considered volatile and will not survive a restart of
the ESME instance.

"Most clicked links" is another statistic, which will follow soon.

Unlike the tag cloud, the popular messages snippet is not comet-based,
but I'm thinking about ways to do it efficiently.

Another problem is that since there's no way currently to find out
whether a message has been resent or not, you can resend as many times
as you wish, and skew the statistics to your advantage. This can be
easily solved with another DB change, where a field in the mailbox
records whether a message has been resent already.

Have fun,
Vassil

Re: Popularity statistics

[Anne Kathrine Petterøe <yo...@gmail.com>]

This is really super cool.
Thanks Vassil!


On 10. aug.. 2009, at 16.16, Vassil Dichev wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Richard  
> Hirsch<hi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any way to see the stats?
>
> Sure, I've clicked on some resend buttons, check the right sidebar,
> just below "Post message" and "Tags"

Re: Popularity statistics

[Vassil Dichev <vd...@apache.org>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Richard Hirsch<hi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there any way to see the stats?

Sure, I've clicked on some resend buttons, check the right sidebar,
just below "Post message" and "Tags"

Re: Popularity statistics

[Richard Hirsch <hi...@gmail.com>]

Is there any way to see the stats?

D.

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Vassil Dichev<vd...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I've just committed an actor in trunk which collects popularity stats,
> currently it works for resent messages, which are displayed in the
> right sidebar of the main page. With the current design statistical
> information is considered volatile and will not survive a restart of
> the ESME instance.
>
> "Most clicked links" is another statistic, which will follow soon.
>
> Unlike the tag cloud, the popular messages snippet is not comet-based,
> but I'm thinking about ways to do it efficiently.
>
> Another problem is that since there's no way currently to find out
> whether a message has been resent or not, you can resend as many times
> as you wish, and skew the statistics to your advantage. This can be
> easily solved with another DB change, where a field in the mailbox
> records whether a message has been resent already.
>
> Have fun,
> Vassil
>