best performance?

I have some very busy topsite and the button on this busy sites is generating some nice load.

Since I rank the sites based on the inbound clicks I don't need the button impression count.

now my problem, because there are ~500 websites using the the link to the button I need to do something.

at the moment I use some php file function to show only the image through the button script. It looks like that server load is lower since I use it this way (no more database transactions inside the button script).

I sit maybe better/faster to redirect the button request to the button image via mod_rewrite?

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No. Redirect it through php

php is faster than mod_rewrite, plus this way bots wont load your server.

No. Redirect it through php

php is faster than mod_rewrite, plus this way bots wont load your server.

<?php
header("Location: button.png");
exit;
?>

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Right, but location headers should have complete urls (http://.....)

Right, but location headers should have complete urls (http://.....)

ok thanks
do I need to add a content header too?

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No. In fact it would be wrong to add one, as the location header indicates that there is no content in this page

No. In fact it would be wrong to add one, as the location header indicates that there is no content in this page

ok clear

the good news is that the server has still 220-250 threads but is fast as always (again)

i think the best thing is to use only text links and not the button anymore

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