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Very inspiring story. Kinda OT: what is in 800K lines of code for website optimization? I cannot imagine.

by swah 14y ago

paraschopra 14y ago
Visual Website Optimizer started as the easiest A/B testing tool (it still is!), but there's a lot of features now. From cross domain tracking (that requires 3rd party cookies) to geo-behavioral targeting with 15+ variables to heatmaps. It's actually becoming a very comprehensive analytics and optimisation platform. Here's the full feature list http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/feature-list.php http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/feature-list.php Not sure if I answered your question, but the gist of my response is that features add lines of code. There's frontend, backend, test cases, housekeeping scripts, monitoring, etc.
- swah 14y ago
  Yes, thank you for the writeup. That page sums it up: a lot of features!
segmondy 14y ago
Do you write code for a living?
- swah 14y ago
  Not that much. Sorry if it sounded like a snide remark. I just thought the number was big and was trying to understand what those 80 modules of 10000 lines would be. For comparison, Python 2.7.4 seems to have 400K lines of Python code. C:\Users\me\Desktop\Python-2.7.4>cloc . 4233 text files. 4130 unique files. 1424 files ignored. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.58 T=23.0 s (134.3 files/s, 54205.3 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python 2086 86198 107060 414941 C 548 50019 36839 369130 C/C++ Header 254 6514 9919 64470 Bourne Shell 39 6109 6235 38030 m4 19 1585 191 15172 Assembly 47 3659 4474 13733 make 12 500 360 3043 HTML 14 393 11 2336 Teamcenter def 9 173 162 2104 Objective C 7 102 70 635 Expect 7 115 178 545 DOS Batch 30 90 102 426 CSS 1 97 19 323 C++ 2 27 18 134 vim script 1 36 7 106 Javascript 2 15 10 97 XML 4 57 2 73 NAnt scripts 2 1 0 30 IDL 1 0 0 24 Visual Basic 2 1 1 12 YAML 1 2 0 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 3088 155693 165658 925370 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  - segmondy 14y ago
    Python is a programming language. It's very strict. If you give it the wrong input, just one character. You get an error. Software that people use? Is a kind of programming language. Except their "programs" is input into the keyboard. To handle a lot of exceptions without crashing? That will make increase a code base 10x.

Very inspiring story. Kinda OT: what is in 800K lines of code for website optimization? I cannot imagine.

by swah 14y ago

Very inspiring story. Kinda OT: what is in 800K lines of code for website optimization? I cannot imagine.

Visual Website Optimizer started as the easiest A/B testing tool (it still is!), but there's a lot of features now. From cross domain tracking (that requires 3rd party cookies) to geo-behavioral targeting with 15+ variables to heatmaps. It's actually becoming a very comprehensive analytics and optimisation platform. Here's the full feature list http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/feature-list.php http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/feature-list.php Not sure if I answered your question, but the gist of my response is that features add lines of code. There's frontend, backend, test cases, housekeeping scripts, monitoring, etc.

swah 14y ago
Yes, thank you for the writeup. That page sums it up: a lot of features!

segmondy 14y ago

Do you write code for a living?

swah 14y ago
Not that much. Sorry if it sounded like a snide remark. I just thought the number was big and was trying to understand what those 80 modules of 10000 lines would be. For comparison, Python 2.7.4 seems to have 400K lines of Python code. C:\Users\me\Desktop\Python-2.7.4>cloc . 4233 text files. 4130 unique files. 1424 files ignored. http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.58 T=23.0 s (134.3 files/s, 54205.3 lines/s) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language files blank comment code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python 2086 86198 107060 414941 C 548 50019 36839 369130 C/C++ Header 254 6514 9919 64470 Bourne Shell 39 6109 6235 38030 m4 19 1585 191 15172 Assembly 47 3659 4474 13733 make 12 500 360 3043 HTML 14 393 11 2336 Teamcenter def 9 173 162 2104 Objective C 7 102 70 635 Expect 7 115 178 545 DOS Batch 30 90 102 426 CSS 1 97 19 323 C++ 2 27 18 134 vim script 1 36 7 106 Javascript 2 15 10 97 XML 4 57 2 73 NAnt scripts 2 1 0 30 IDL 1 0 0 24 Visual Basic 2 1 1 12 YAML 1 2 0 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUM: 3088 155693 165658 925370 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- segmondy 14y ago
  Python is a programming language. It's very strict. If you give it the wrong input, just one character. You get an error. Software that people use? Is a kind of programming language. Except their "programs" is input into the keyboard. To handle a lot of exceptions without crashing? That will make increase a code base 10x.