ML you popular beast... ;)

[bbigford]

@scottalanmiller said in ML you popular beast... :

Our hits have increased a lot this month. We used to be in the hundreds of thousands of views per day but are in the 4 - 36 million range now (hits, not completely thread loads, but the numbers are important for resource and capacity comparisons.) So our little web server is taking about half of that and CloudFlare is taking almost exactly half. Load seems fine, however. But recently our need to handle high capacity has exploded. Our views so far this month are over 170m.

Wow, I knew the community was organic at this point but that's crazy. What do you think is causing the most draw in views aside from word of mouth?

[scottalanmiller]

@BBigford said in ML you popular beast... :

Wow, I knew the community was organic at this point but that's crazy. What do you think is causing the most draw in views aside from word of mouth?

Search Engines. We have some decent anecdotal evidence to support this. Like people I've known from my career pre-ML who have reached out to me to tell me that some of the world's biggest companies are using the site to search for solutions. My old team at the bank was looking for solutions to Linux problems that they had and they found the solution on ML via Google. And when they read the solution they realized that it was me and they Facebooked me to say that they had found the site organically via Google and then put two and two together.

Just one example, but that suggests that we've hit a threshold where that stuff can and does happen. once you cross that barrier it tends to snowball a bit.

[scottalanmiller]

After the last move to HTTPS the jump in search engine traffic was huge. Presumably our ranking jumped a lot.

Overall the site does really well in SEO based on the extreme level of content and constant activity combined with the incredible load speeds. That does a lot to boost us over the "competition".

We literally see, at least where I test, loads of like 10-100x faster here than some other popular IT discussion sites. That does a LOT for getting us search engine traffic.

[MattSpeller]

FWIW I've never had a 503 to this website

[DustinB3403]

I've only seen it once.

About a month ago, just refreshed and it was gone.

[Danp]

Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

TypeError: document.getElementById(...) is null
https://ajax.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/nexp/dok3v=e982913d31/cloudflare.min.js line 4 > eval line 1 > eval
Line 2

The error seems to be on this line:

document.getElementById('home-ad' + (Math.floor(Math.random() * 7) + 1)).className = '';

[JaredBusch]

@MattSpeller said in ML you popular beast... :

FWIW I've never had a 503 to this website

I too never see the 503 during normal use. I have gotten it and then noticed a post stating the site was being restarted, so those do not count.

[Dashrender]

I've only see the page busy error once. As for the websocket loading bar spinning icon, I haven't seen that in ages.

[Danp]

@Danp said in ML you popular beast... :

Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

To clarify, this post was in reference to the spinning circle issue, not the 503 error.

[JaredBusch]

@Danp said in ML you popular beast... :

@Danp said in ML you popular beast... :

Seems to be related to loading the ads. Here's the info from the browser console:

To clarify, this post was in reference to the spinning circle issue, not the 503 error.

and this post is to confirm that I am only seeing the spinning circle and progress bar get stuck when the ads are failing to load. notice no ad below the my profile. also no add was at the bottom of the page.

[scottalanmiller]

That is very odd as the ads should be all from cache and are all local to the server, too.

[thwr]

@scottalanmiller: @JaredBusch is right, see my screenshot above: No ads (adblocker is deactivated for ML)

[Danp]

Looks like the issue is here:

<a id="home-ad1" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="http://www.xbyte.com/?utm_source=mangolassi&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=1recgeneral">
<a id="home-ad2" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="http://www.xbyte.com/?utm_source=mangolassi&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=1recgeneral">
<img class="img-responsive" src="![xbyte2.jpg](https://mangolassi.it/uploads/files/ml/xbyte2.jpg">)
<img class="hidden img-responsive" target="_blank" href="http://www.flukenetworks.com/enterprise-network/network-testing/linksprinter?ls=mangolassi&lsd=mangolassiad" home-ad3"="" src="</a> <a id=">
<img class="img-responsive" src="![NS-Education-160x600-C.jpg](https://mangolassi.it/uploads/files/ml/NS-Education-160x600-C.jpg">)
</a>
<a id="home-ad4" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="http://www.flukenetworks.com/content/try-onetouch-your-network-free?ls=mangolassi&lsd=mangolassiad">
<a id="home-ad5" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="https://order.aetherstore.com/registration/partner?referralSource=MangoLassi">
<a id="home-ad6" class="" target="_blank" href="https://mangocon.it/">
<a id="home-ad7" class="hidden" target="_blank" href="https://mangocon.it/">

Note how "home-ad3' is not defined correctly.

[scottalanmiller]

Just fixed it. Let's see if that cleans things up.

[Danp]

@scottalanmiller So far, so good.

[thwr]

At 09:08h CEST / GMT+2? I guess there's something else up, we had quite some heavy discussions yesterday without any 503.

[scottalanmiller]

@thwr load is increasing quickly. We are definitely under heavier than normal view load. Nothing epic, but easily double yesterday, which was more average.

[IRJ]

I see it at least 4-5 times a day if not more. A refresh always does the trick, though.

[IRJ]

That didn't take long...

[travisdh1]

@IRJ Must be my lucky day, I haven't seen one yet.