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RuneTrack is a website dedicated to tracking and analyzing RuneScape experience gains on both an individual and global level with powerful applications, tools, graphs, and charts.

A Flurry of RuneTrack Upgrades, Fixes, and More

Sat. August 14, 2010

Hey all,

I've now added a flurry of helpful new features and fixes to RuneTrack:

• The contents of the old "User Stat History" page has been split among the "User Stat History" and "User Stat Progress" pages.
• Competition Trackers now use a new stat checking algorithm which runs five times faster - meaning you'll only be waiting a few seconds instead of a few minutes when you press the "Update Clan Stats" button on Competition Trackers.
• Once a competition starts, the competition administrator now has the ability to remove members from ongoing competitions (however, they cannot remove members from the competition after it's finished).
• Instead of using the universal GMT standard on all Competition Trackers, competition administrators can now set the competition start and end time in a timezone of their choice.
• Based on the custom timezone selected on Competition Trackers by the competition administrator, clicking on the blue timezone text on a Competition Tracker will reveal a RuneTrack Auto Timezone Converter with the competition's start or end time, as well as proper timezone, so whoever is viewing it will know exactly when the competition starts or ends in their home timezone.
• RuneTrack now uses a "resolution" cookie to give you a personalized browsing experience based on your screen resolution. This allows the site to expand certain features like the flash graphs and charts for wider resolutions, and consense them for lower resolutions.
• Hovering over your current XP on your User Profile Page will display how much XP you have remaining until the next level.
• RuneTrack Auto Timezone Converters now have improved text support for special characters in the title.
• To recognize those who have given their time to contributing display name changes on the Contribute a Display Name Change page, there is now a leaderboard of the top name contributors. To be included in the running for this leaderboard, you must type your own display name (which must have its own RuneTrack account) in the optional field before submitting a name change contribution.
• The top three name contributors will have a special contribution medal placed on their User Profile page to recognize their support of the site. An example of this medal can be seen on the current #1 name contributor's User Profile: Capheraekton .
• RuneTrack now has improved HTML 4.01 and CSS validation. When you click a blue "W3C" button link at the bottom of any page, the "W3C" site will scan the code of the current page you are on, and prove that the page is coded to precise HTML 4.01 standards.
• Usernames now appear without the underscore "_" and instead use a proper space, unless a name has multiple spaces, in which the name will appear with underscores to show multiple spaces.
• Page source codes are now properly formatted in terms of tabs and new line spacing. This can be seen in Internet Explorer by right clicking on the page, clicking "View Source", then unchecking "Word Wrap" on the Format menu. In Firefox, this can be seen by right clicking the page and selecting "View Page Source", then deselecting "Wrap Long Lines" under the View menu.

As always, if any element of the site isn't working exactly as it should (or even looks just a little off), please feel free to drop a quick note in the Bugs/Issues Forum and it'll be quickly fixed. Thanks for your continued help!

I hope these upgrades will enhance the user experience of RuneTrack and lay the foundation for further developments to come. :)

Speed/Design Enhancements and Name Change Contributions

Fri. April 2, 2010

Hi all,

I'd like to announce a few great improvements to RuneTrack. I realize this is a lengthy news post, but I assure you that it's entirety is definitely worth the read!

Firstly, I know there hasn't been a news post in a while - but I have still been very much at work on the "behind the scenes" features at RuneTrack. With RuneTrack's explosive growth over the past few months, I noticed that various pages weren't running as smoothly with the addition of millions of new data values to process. To ensure that our efficiency here is maintained, I re-designed a significant amount of RuneTrack scripts with a better code structure, allowing for a much faster stat tracking and experience analysis.

To give you an idea of the vast improvements made, take a look at this chart comparing certain pages' average load speeds:

Page	Load Speed Improvement
	January 2010	April 2010
Individual Records Page	21.5 seconds	0.2 seconds
Home Page	3.8 seconds	0.1 seconds
Competitions Catalogue	5.5 seconds	1.5 seconds
User Profile Page	8.5 seconds	1.1 seconds
Daily High Scores	9.4 seconds	0.2 seconds
RuneTrack High Scores	8.1 seconds	0.3 seconds

Note: Average load time refers to the time it takes the server to process the page (displayed at the very bottom of every page).

The update efficiently reduced the amount of server calculations needed to be preformed on runtime by storing them in a retrievable database during the system update. As you can see from the above table, this was a major improvement.

Additionally, I'd also like to mention the site design enhancements. As you may have noticed, most pages have undergone some nice graphic tweaks, presenting a sleeker feel to the site. I'd like to thank Branin (Lateralus) for all of his help in designing many these new site images. Note that there are still a number of graphical updates to come.

Finally, I have introduced another RuneTrack feature to further improve tracking services. Since the name change update back in October which allows players to change their display names every month, Jagex has still not provided fansites with a way to easily obtain name change information. Unfortunately, this meant that many User Profiles went inactive, simply because there was no way to determine a players' new display names once changed. The individual name changer successfully gave players the ability to merge their old and new display names on RuneTrack - however, as a significant number of users have not done this, many User Profiles still remain stuck on a player's old display name.

To solve this issue, I have now introduced a Name Change Contributions Page (also located on the left navigation menu under "Auto Timezone Converter"). The contribution system allows the community of RuneTrack users like you to help maintain the accurate and efficient stat tracking services, by ensuring that old display names are not left behind.

Essentially, if you wish to participate, the contribution system will present you with a random old display name in the RuneTrack database which someone has recently switched to a new display name. To contribute, all you have to do is locate that player's new name by adding the old name to your Friends List (thus displaying their new name), and submitting their new name on the page. Simply by doing that, the player's entire Individual Tracking account will be completely updated to their new display name, and you will have saved their User Profile from going inactive.

In a database of thousands of users, I knew that I alone would be unable to keep up with the many daily name changes, which is why I decided to give you all the ability to do so as well. Of course choosing to contribute name changes is completely voluntary - but if you ever have a spare moment in-game, you may want consider spending a minute or two helping keep RuneTrack up to date.

Thanks again for all of your continued support! =)

Name Changing Feature and Other Updates

Mon. November 2, 2009

Hi all,

I know that Jagex's recent update which allows players to change their RuneScape display names has caused quite a bit of confusion lately. Unfortunately, Jagex has made the decision to not provide fansites with any way of obtaining a player's new display name if a player should choose to change it, which of course makes stat tracking rather difficult with so many name changes with no means to track them all.

However, I have now created a Change Display Name feature at the bottom of the Individual Tracking menu which allows any user to transfer or merge a RuneTrack profile to a new display name. This can apply to those who either want to change the name on their current RuneTrack account to correctly match their new RuneScape display name, or for those who have already created a new RuneTrack account for their new display name and simply want to merge their history from their old accounts into it. RuneTrack will cycle through a variety of verification checks to ensure that the name change provided is accurate.

If successful, the old display name will be replaced with the new display name in all Individual and Global tracking areas, including Global Record names. The player's old display name(s) will also be placed in small text under his or her new display name on the User Profile page for reference.

Eventually, as RuneTrack logs enough name changing information, I will be releasing a new database feature which will allow the user to view the history of a given display name in time line form. For example, say you are a clan leader processing a new application that looks somewhat suspicious - you would be able to type that player's current display name into RuneTrack, and it would output a complete history of all display names that account has previously held, with additional tracking information such as the dates on which the name changes were made, and if any other accounts have held that display name in the past.

Also, as another minor update to RuneTrack today - if you scroll down on the homepage, you will notice that I have added two extra tables for "This Week's Top Xp Gains" and "This Month's Top Xp Gains". Just as further explanation, the top weekly xp gains reset every Sunday morning and the top monthly xp gains reset on the first of the month.

Automatic Timezone Converters

Tues. July 7, 2009

Hi all,

I'd like to announce a very special feature to RuneTrack - the Automatic Timezone Converter!

It's common that whenever people post about RuneScape events on a forum, there are inevitably many replies asking for help with figuring out the event's time in their local timezone. Timezone conversions can be rather troublesome, sometimes people even miss events simply because they got the time conversion wrong.

So, what if there was some way for you to post the time of an event, and have that time magically always appear in the local time of whoever viewed it? I'm pleased to say that with the Automatic Timezone Converter image, this is now a possibility!


Note: Sample image is scaled down due to the size of the announcement box - the real thing is much clearer.

As a quick example, say you had an online event planned for the exact moment of midnight on New Year's Eve in New York City. You would simply create a timezone converter such as the one above, and whoever views it will have Midnight on January 1, 2010 converted to their local timezone.

As you can see, the image lists the event's name and its set time according to the event creator. However below that, you will additionally see the time in your local timezone, your location, and the amount of time remaining. The image works by s by matching the viewer's IP address to a geographical location, then converting the set event time to the local time off that location.

So instead of bothering with listing multiple timezones for an event and hoping people will get their own conversions right, you are able to avoid all of the confusion and simply place this image in your post. It acts like a normal image, just like the stat signatures, so it can be placed easily in forum/blog posts or anywhere you need it.

Feel try to try it out and end timezone confusion forever!

Clan Competition Signatures

Tues. June 30, 2009

Hey all,

I'm happy to announce a new Dynamic Signature has been added - Competition Signatures!

Competition signatures were designed for the sole purpose of dynamically tracking your progress while participating in a RuneTrack Clan Competition, allowing to quickly glance at your progress in the handy form of an image signature. Below is an example of a competition signature:


Additionally, a new column has been added to all RuneTrack Competition Trackers at the right side of the competition ranking table, providing a quick link to each player's own personalized competition signature. The competition signatures can be customized with any of the traditional signature background styles.

Thanks to StSquiggy who originally suggested competition signatures on the RuneTrack forums.

I hope you all enjoy these new signatures and the continued Clan Tracking updates still to come.