website-metrics

Counting number of views for a page ignoring search engines?

I notice that Stack Overflow has a views count for each question and that these view numbers are fairly low and accurate. I have a similar thing on one of my sites. It basically logs a "hit" whenever the page is loaded in the backend code. Unfortunately it also does this for search engine hits giving bloated and inaccurate numbers. I ...

Elegant way to determine total size of website?

is there an elegant way to determine the size of data downloaded from a website -- bearing in mind that not all requests will go to the same domain that you originally visited and that other browsers may in the background be polling at the same time. Ideally i'd like to look at the size of each individual page -- or for a Flash site the ...

Why does my website need so much time to render?

Hi all, I need to make some performance improvements on a web site and made some major improvements, but now I stuck with a strange problem. When cached, my starting page only needs to load one element (the "root document") - but then it needs some time until it's rendered completely: The elements following are things loaded asynchr...