Saturday 17 November 2007

Week 5 Results


After the end of Week 4 I have stopped monitoring the results daily. It was becoming just too obsessive!

Now rather than looking at pages cached, I'm trying to watch frequency of caching. It is known that popular sites are cached daily, unpopular sites less often and in my experience this can go to monthly or worse...

So site 1 - with no links - no displays 4 pages cached. Internal pages were last cached 14th October (2 articles & 1 archive) and the home page almost a week later on the 20th, sometime after that day's post. The most recent 2 posts haven't yet been picked up.

Site 2 - normal links - has 8 pages, all cached from the 2nd to 4th November. The home page is there, but the most recent post is missing. 7 of 9 posts cached.

Site 3 - target="_blank" links - home page cached on the 9th with 5 out of 9 posts cached on 31st October, 2nd November, 4th November (2 posts) and 9th November. Plus the October archive on 10th November.

It will be interesting to see in a couple of days whether site 2 has been fully cached again this weekend. It is getting a lot more consistency in its caching.

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