Archive for January, 2009

DSpace at a third of a million items

As part of the JISC-funded ROAD (Robot-generated Open Access Data) project we are load testing DSpace EPrints and Fedora to see how they cope with holding large numbers of items. For a bit of background, see an earlier blog post: ‘About to load test DEF repositories‘ The project programmer Antony Corfield has created a SWORD [...]

Update your Google Analytics Tracking Code

Just in case you missed the announcement from Google Analytics, they have just updated their tracking code snippet. The snippet is a couple of bits of JavaScript that first download the relevant copy of the analytics code (depending whether your site is SSL protected or not – so they don’t see security warnings from their [...]

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