--- Richard Gallagher <rbg(a)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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