Missing pages - can YOU help us track them down?

[JustineMumsnet]

So, ever since BigTech made his new releases (which incidentally still have a few wee glitches to sort, before you shout) we've noticed that folks are clicking less on all the Talk topic home pages eg this one. In fact you are collectively clicking on those roughly half as much as you used to and we're completely stymied as to why. Don't spose any bright spark out there has any ideas about what might have changed?

(There's a pack of Christmas cards (or three) by way of reward for anyone whose information leads to the discovery of our lost pages...)

But listen to mp more - I never use the topic pages for some reason.

JJ, yeah, I had a flick through last night looking for (bad) absolute links. It could be that. Where are you seeing them? In particular, links to topic pages?

Obvious question probably - are you sure the call to the analytics script isn't on a different part of the page on the "missing" pages? Have had untold problems in the past caused by this kind of difference between seemingly identical pages. Especially where the position of the ad serving code varies slightly too....

ZakuroFujiwara, nope. Definitely not moved.

The topic links on Threads I'm on also links to the numeric code for each topic instead of the new naming convention - has that changed?

I'm running out of ideas

Have you got the old site somewhere so we can compare?!

oh you answered the bit about the numeric links already

Not sure if that changed (probably not, but not impossible). However, like I say, if one looks at the increase in page views using the numeric form it in no way accounts for the change.

I don't know - it's just been every now and then. [useless]

Good luck!

Go awn give me and wmmc the keys to the stats

I could procrastinate all morning looking through them

It will be our little secret

MP has sod all to do all day

I'm busy trying to fix my own bloody server which keeps keeling over at the same time each week

actually I'm trying to get the World's Easiest Formmail cgi script to work and fucking it up

I'm REALLY dim TBH

let's talk about your server problem, that sounds far more interesting

It's not actually I just fixed it

Umm guess who set it up to backup then and then guess who put some other processes on at the same time. Doh!

You see, this is why I'm not allowed to have the launch codes

Another question - completely off the topic, but nonetheless...

When I look at "threads I'm watching", when I click on a poster's name, instead of taking me to that point in the thread, it links through to the Topic menu. Why is that?

If I want to go onto the thread, I have to click the thread title, but it just takes me to the top of the thread and I then have to find my way back to the last place I read.

I don't like it.

Update on all this - we have now found our missing pages and the good news is we've been undercounting our visitors too - so there are in fact even more Mumsnetters than we thought.

Many thanks to JJ and everyone else who suggested the www lead. Turns out that Google were not tracking people who entered the site by putting mumsnet.com (ie no www) in the browser post BigTech's changes.

To claim your free Mumsnet Guide [email protected]. JJ when you're next in Kentish Town area - we owe you some sushi!