Re: Top Album Statistics

[Liontamer]

Any chance we can add the functionality for the Top Album Statistics to not just display aggregated stats, but also filtering for each album category (i.e. Official Release, Enclosure / Promo, Doujin, Works, Game Animation & Film, Demo Scene, Bootleg, Other). Would be cool to see breakdowns on the other categories without Official Releases getting in the way.

[Secret Squirrel]

I could come up with all kinds of stats, but I mostly tried to stick with a small manageable set of useful statistics. What you mentioned sounds interesting though. Perhaps I should think about a way to generate user-customizable stats and top lists.

[seanne]

I too would definitely like to see more in-depth stats made available on the stats page. What Liontamer mentioned would be neat, as would longer lists of the different stats already available (e.g a "more" link could be added).

[Secret Squirrel]

So what else would everyone like to see besides Classification filtering and the capability to browse the full top lists?

I was thinking of adding some more primary or secondary stats such as label count and weblink count, as well as a few more submission statistics. Also, the top and bottom rated artists would be interesting to look at, particularly since it's a derived stat.

[Secret Squirrel]

I've added paginated browsing to all the lists (which ended up being a lot more of a pain than I thought.) The only thing that I'm dissatisfied about is that the 30-day window album views is a bit slow to load (1.34 sec), but that's because it's got to count a couple hundred thousand views instead of 20. Maybe there's a clever way to fix that.

I'll be thinking about the classifications next, and about adding more stats (possibly expanding to 2 or 3 pages.)

[seanne]

For some reason the entry id numbers are left out of the links on the " Most Frequently Viewed Albums (Last 30 Days)" list now, SS.

[Secret Squirrel]

Oops, sorry about that. I was playing around with ways to try to speed up that query. The links work now.

[seanne]

Would increasing the number of entries on each list be worthwhile as far as search times are concerned? Perhaps top-100, top-150 instead of top-20? It would limit some people to perhaps only one search instead of 5-6, and at the same time giving them a better view of the top-100, or whatever they might be interested in.

[Secret Squirrel]

In general, if it means the user loads less pages, then yes since the slow part is counting the view table, not adding the album info afterwards. To be honest, I really don't know how everyone else uses these. If we went with top 100, do we even need the pagination?

[seanne]

I reckon most people would be content with a limited number, like 100. Anyone else got any thoughts on this?