I've got stuff that calculates a number of those stats. Believe me, it's not as fun when you know that more traffic hits your site by crawlers looking for email addresses to spam than legitimate traffic.

I'd prefer the index page to not be processor intensive. The previous idkfa stats page took upwards of 20 seconds to complete. I even had to put a caching mechanism in front of it to make sure people didn't bring the server to its knees by sleeping on their F5 button.

Also, the first thing people should see should be snappy and easily consumed. A wall of numbers, while exciting to programmers and engineers, may not be somebody's idea of a welcome mat.

I appreciate the ideas. Keep 'em coming. Something will stick.

#949, posted at 2010-10-05 03:16:37 in idkfa