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Hi Shaun (and everyone)

As per your request.. I’ve just started a new troubleshooting thread for my problems with Outbound links.

My Outbound links do record the links clicked on but unfortunately, they seem to be quite inaccurate.

For example, the stats show that a certain link has been clicked on for over 1,000 times in a 48 hour period but the page where the link is placed hasn’t even been accessed by more than 200 visitors in the same timeframe so that’s just impossible.

Some of other link stats are similarly jumbled up.

I’m running the latest Mint and default pepper installs… no other additional peppers.

Can anyone help?

Shaun,

I can’t really pin down the specific page and link which is faulty because it seems to be randomized.

I can however say for sure that the first or top link for each time frame (past hour to 48 hours) seems to be the most inaccurate. For example, Mint shows me that a specific link was clicked on for 455 times in the last 24 hours (this was listed as the first/top result).

However, that’s not possible because the page has been accessed last than 10 times in the last 24 hours. The same thing goes for the other top links for each time frame.

I can’t confirm if the rest of the links are showing accurate results as well but I do know that they seem to be quite reasonable.. i.e. the number of link clicks fall within the number of times the page was viewed (according to the Pages frame in Mint).

One more problem.. after clicking around on each time frame, I’ve noticed that the top links with the most clicks change randomly. Just a minute ago it was showing LINK A and when I’ve clicked around and returned to the same timeframe.. the top link with the most click is showing LINK B instead now. The number of clicks however.. strangely remains the same.

Hopefully all this makes sense..and do let me know if you know a fix for this… thanks!

Glad to have found this post—I’ve been seeing the same issue lately, I believe, and was wondering… the observation below clarifies the issue:

Right now: if I check the 24h timeframe, my top outbound link (let’s call it A) has 327 hits. Fine.

Now I check 48h. Another outbound link (B) is at top with 333 hits. A does not even show up in the 48h list, and the second place is a measly 20 hits.

Now I check “show all.” There’s another link at top with a presumed 401 hits (C—btw, there’s no way this link has that many hits) and the second place is 42 hits. A and B aren’t even on this list.

In conclusion: it seems like, often, (a) the first-place value is ridiculously inflated, for some reason, and/or (b) the values are just completely out of whack.

Any advice?

Did you recently upgrade your server from 32-bit? Mint is smart enough to change the column depending on the server during installation but not smart enough to detect when its been moved from one architecture to another.

Alright Shaun, that didn’t work:

I currently have, for example, site A with 11 hits as first place in the 8 hour view. Fine. Now in show all, site B is at first place with 17 hits. Second place is some other site (C) with 6 hits. Something is clearly wrong.

Any other things I should check out??

I changed the sign and emptied the table… but now I’ve emptied it, uninstalled, and reinstalled. We’ll see what happens…

Nope—still not working. In the 4h view, site A has 7 hits… in the show all, the top hit is 8 hits, not site A, and second place has 1 hit…

“Link text and launching page”… should I try the other setting?

Mitcho, your server is now reporting as 32bit. 32bit servers should have SIGNED _checksum columns.

JSSP, your server is 64bit (hover over the Mint version number in the footer) so _checksum columns should be UNSIGNED.

The checksum confusion is caused by the server running PHP, not the MySQL database server. Whenever I or Mint refer to the architecture of a server, we are always referring to the web server, not the database server.