I like stats. We all like stats in some form or other. It brings order to often disorganised information.
My website has been taking a lot of hits recently, far over the normal amount of traffic I get. To the left should show that quite clearly.

All of those extra hits have been for one particular post I made. Hampshire police bus. As you can see to the right, I’ve had close to 10,000 hits just for that post.

Apc has been taking a lot of weight off the shoulders of my server (1.24 million hits!). Admittedly, my server doesn’t just host my website, but several other popular websites too. The user cache variables are from my websites only though.

I’m pretty thankful I run APC, mod_deflate and WP Super Cache. Without any of these my server would probably be struggling. I’d also recommend the WordPress APC object cache for those who use WordPress and have APC installed.

I installed the latest version of Apache last night and enabled a new module that wasn’t previously available under Apache 1.3; mod_deflate. This gives the following speed and size improvements over generally every page hosted here.

By adding the following code to httpd.conf once mod_deflate is compiled into apache you too can achieve similar results.

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
DeflateFilterNote ratio
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.pdf$ no-gzip dont-vary