Service Updates Coming Soon

Cligs has been a bit slower than usual which means that we’ve found the next growth bottleneck that needs fixing. I’d like to explain to you what’s going on and tell you how it’s going to be fixed.

The Problem

The biggest problem is the My Cligs page, specifically, the "Cligs Getting Last 100 Hits" feature. I had reports from someone whose My Cligs page takes a full 45 seconds to load, and that’s not that unusual. All that time, the Cligs server is building the page, which slows down the service. At peak hours when everyone is checking their stats, Cligs can get really slow.

The second biggest problem is the introduction of the new bot detection analytics. This feature makes Cligs much slower than it should be, and I was not able to foresee that before launch. Now that it’s launched and everyone is commenting on how cool it is (i.e. using it!), Cligs is starting to strain.

The Fixes

Firstly, as a temporary measure, I’ve tweaked the "Cligs Getting Last 100 Hits" to make it list only the last 10 cligs that got hits. This makes the page loading much faster and doesn’t strain the server.

In the next few days, I’ll be tweaking the database and changing the way it stores data. This has two side effects:

• It will make the analytics run much faster.
• It will enable me to deploy new types of analytics and build new features that I’ve always wanted to add. One of those features will be unique to Cligs just like the Right Clig geotargeting.

When? The backend is being changed tonight and tomorrow, and I’m hoping to make the switch over the weekend quiet period just in case things go into digital lala land. The new features will be built once the changes are confirmed as working.

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