Ranked Images and a few questions

[Adam]

[No longer a Problem]I am having a bad problem with the Rank Images this evening. They first went down on 2 websites that they were previously working on (Just showing up as blanks) and I saw that they were 2 on an account that has 3, and her primary website was displaying the button correctly.[EDITED- WORKING FINE NOW]

Things have changed now, I have all sites displaying images correctly (I think several sites were accessing the same file that was missing, the button for 11th place). How often do the Buttons update? Like if my site is in 10th and moves to 9th, how long does it take to update on my site?

And another question, what determines rank? Is it total in , or unique in?

And for Premium sites, is there a way to get them to display a banner no matter what position they are in on the list? I am trying to come up with ways to make becoming premium a more worthwhile proposition.

Thanks guys.

 

[Basti]

Things have changed now, I have all sites displaying images correctly (I think several sites were accessing the same file that was missing, the button for 11th place). How often do the Buttons update? Like if my site is in 10th and moves to 9th, how long does it take to update on my site?

The rank on the button is cached and updates each 30 min

And another question, what determines rank? Is it total in , or unique in?

its always unique. Ranking by total simply is not accurate, you could click the button over and oveer again and your rank will raise

And for Premium sites, is there a way to get them to display a banner no matter what position they are in on the list? I am trying to come up with ways to make becoming premium a more worthwhile proposition.

There are 2 premium ranking files. Like the original table_top_row and table_row there are the same for premium members. You properbly are looking after table_row_premium.html
You could code it like table_top_row_premium.html ( see in there for other possible tags )
premium banner =

<a href="{$url}" onclick="out(this,'{$username}');"><img src="{$premium_banner_url}" alt="{$title}" title="{$lng->g_premium_visit}" class="vistip"/></a>