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Dec 02.2008

Im looking for a script that can refresh to a predefined list of URLs and each url has its own “weight”.

What I am trying to accomplish is this, a marketing campaign is going to be sending mass amounts of traffic. What I want is kind of load balancing between 2 URLS, so if when someone visits a URL, 10% of the time it will refresh to a similar URL.

I found

[CODE]<script type=”text/javascript”>
<!–
Array.prototype.random = function () {return this[Math.floor(Math.random() * this.length)]}

Date.ONE_SECOND = 1000;

url = [‘fee.html’, ‘fie.html’, ‘foe.html’, ‘fum.html’]

setTimeout(‘location = url.random()’, 5 * Date.ONE_SECOND)
// –>
</script>[/CODE]

But it’s not quite what I had in mind

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@rnd_meDec 03.2008 — if you want weight, simply repeat any urls you want to use more, and continue to apply the random pick.
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@bmdmediaauthorDec 03.2008 — Ya I guess that could be one solution.

Since what Im going for is 10% to be balanced out, is should just do


url = ['url1.html', 'url1.html', 'url1.html', 'url1.html', 'url1.html', 'url1.html', 'url1.html', 'url1.html', 'url1.html', 'url2.html']


right?
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@rnd_meDec 04.2008 — Ya I guess that could be one solution.

Since what Im going for is 10&#37; to be balanced out, is should just do ... right?[/QUOTE]

well, if that's the case, something a lot simpler would do:


[CODE]<script type="text/javascript"><!--

setTimeout(function(){
var num = parseInt(Math.random() * 10);
location.href = (num == 2 ? "foo.html" : "bar.html"); //loads bar 90%
}, 5000);

// --></script>[/CODE]

in english:

in 5 seconds from code loading:

generate random number between 0 and 9.

if that number is 2, goto foo.

otherwise, and usually, go to bar.
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