5.2. Poll Result Weight

Plugin Key

au_url_poll_result_weight

Plugin Value Type

• List of String

Plugin Value Format

Each string in the list consists of:

• A regular expression,

• A comma,

• A weight between 0.0 and 1.0.

Sample

<entry>
  <string>au_url_poll_result_weight</string>
  <list>
    <string>\.(css|js|png|jpe?g|png|gif|tiff)\?ver=.*$, 0</string>
  </list>
</entry>

Description

This mechanism is a generalization of Exclude URLs From Polls Pattern, which can only exclude URLs from a poll (equivalent of assigning the corresponding URLs a weight of 0.0). Here, URLs can be assigned a partial weight, to reduce the importance of certain families of URLs in polls.