Help & Guide
Release 2.19r
21.6 Performance

Bridgewebs is an online system and all your updates are written to databases and immediately reflected in the actual web site held on disk. In order to provide consistency for users, Bridgewebs writes a static index page for each club, so that users can use

www.bridgewebs.com/myclub

to access your web site. Thereafter it will generally be the online site with addresses such as

www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwx/bw.cgi?club=myclub

With the Online, all Bridgewebs pages after the home page are dynamically built as required.

Publish

In addition, Bridgewebs writes static html pages for all news pages that can be used by Google etc to update their indexes and appear in a Google search. Whenever you update anything relevant to the news pages on Bridgewebs, then these pages need to be rewritten. For efficiency, especially on larger sites, and especially as most Browsers "cache" these pages anyway, a "Publish" queue id updated to say the pages should be written. and every 15 minutes a job runs and checks the queue and updates all the sites where the queue entry is older than 15 minutes, so at worse case it can be 30 minutes before it is written. You can force immediate in WebAdmin on any [Settings] Tab, click [Publish]. These are accessed from each club's "public" web space which has these pages, images, pictures and documents and are accessed e.g.

www.bridgewebs.com/myclub/page1.html

and should look identical to

www.bridgewebs.com/cgi-bin/bwx/bw.cgi?club=myclub&pid=display_page1

However, you may not see them for a short while. This is what is known as the "Cache" effect. Pages you have viewed are held on your PC computer and only updated every so often in order to improve the overall performance of the whole web and speed with which you can skip backwards and forwards through pages. This happens all the way up the chain from your computer to your Service provider and sites in between on to the "Web Host" itself. This is usually only a few minutes. In fact, someone who is looking at the web site may actually see the new page before you because they have not looked at it for a while. The algorithms are quite complex and is even more of a problem for pictures

You can try clicking [Refresh], usually the button with the 2 green arrows or right click and select [Refresh]. Ot better still try clearing your Browser History.

Last updated : 30th Sep 2020 12:44 GMT