It would be nice if the counters didn't reset to 0 when the webapp is down.
Possible implementation: cron job on the webapp machine that periodically wget the json file at https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/stat/counters/ ; change the website js to load that file instead of ajax calling into the webapp.
As a side-effect of this specific implementation we will not need to use JSONP any more for content counters.
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it's not visible in the commit, but I've also just added the following (horrible) anacrontab line to our gandi simple-paas instance
4@hourly 0 statcache wget -qO /srv/data/web/vhosts/www.softwareheritage.org/htdocs/stat-counters.js.new https://archive.softwareheritage.org/api/1/stat/counters/\?callback=swh_load_counters && mv /srv/data/web/vhosts/www.softwareheritage.org/htdocs/stat-counters.js.new /srv/data/web/vhosts/www.softwareheritage.org/htdocs/stat-counters.js
to maintain the cached copy of stat-counters up to date (every 4 hours)