1174411 - FindBar Tweak's statistics never finish loading

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1152965

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Statistics, defect)

Description

[Luís Miguel [:quicksaver] (not reading bugmail)]

The statistics dashboards in this page never finish loading: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/findbar-tweak/statistics/usage/versions/?last=30

I can't tell if it's actually still waiting on a response from the server, timing out, or it's responded with invalid data.

I believe this is because there are tons of versions around that have misappropriated the add-on id (see bug 1060263). Last time I was able to see these stats was months ago, there were over 6000 versions so it was already taking a few minutes until it finished loading.

Also, I don't think extension signing will solve this. Even if only my actual versions are signed and all others aren't, those unsigned will only be disabled, not uninstalled, so they'll still ping AMO and show up in the stats...

Possible solutions:

1) option to not process pings from unsigned/blocklisted add-ons/versions into stats.
- drawback: devs could have valid self-distributed versions that wouldn't appear in the stats, thus why this should be the dev's choice.

2) option to not show stats of unsigned/blocklisted add-ons/versions in stats pages.
- drawback: statistics wouldn't reflect real usage.

3) unsigned/blocklisted add-ons/versions shouldn't ping AMO for updates.
- drawback: these wouldn't auto-update to "valid" versions, so I don't agree with it and doubt this will make it, just mentioning it for completion sakes.

4) simple appropriate filters in stats page: "No blocklisted", "No unsigned", "No whatever".
- drawback: only for users (not devs) who don't know what these filters mean so don't know how to use them properly.

FYI while writing this I opened the last 7 days page of those stats, to see if it would finish loading in case there were less versions to process than the 30 days page, but it hasn't finished so far either...