--- Richard Gallagher rbg@cvm.co.nz wrote:
I'm with Pete in the view that Wikipedia overall is growing very slowly at the moment and has been since February/March this year. The big jump in hits seems to have occurred in the last week (week 22) of May 2004. See the monthly and yearly charts at http://wikimedia.org/stats/live/org.wikimedia.all.squid.requests-hits.html
Now this big jump coincides with the upgrade to monobook. Looking at the chart you will see the traffic ramps up over the space of about a week or so, this corresponds with the piecemeal fashion that the different languages were upgraded to monobook in the last day on May.
Before monobook each page load without graphics caused four hits - the page itself, the logo graphic, a style sheet and a javascript file. With monobook this number has increased the exact number depends on the browser configuration. But will include several stylesheets, one or two javascript files, the logo image, the background image, the user icon, the list item icon, the gfdl and media wiki logos.
This is all very useful info. Thank you. However I made the error in calling page requests hits. These are the data I've been using for the model:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesUsagePageRequest.htm
I would like to know just how much those extra page requests actually impact the servers. They must have some performance effect, otherwise there would be no need to buy anything but replacement servers at this point (seeing that visits are actually a bit down).
It could be that about the same number of people are using us far more heavily, or that the stats have drifted for some reason related to the upgrade and are thus screwing with the model.
As for the Webalizer "pages" statistic, I believe that some non-pages are incorrectly being counted as pages. But without analysing Webalizers configuration and the log files themselves I can't say for sure what exactly is happening.
If somebody could do that, then that would help a great deal with forecasting.
-- Daniel
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