[Foundation-l] Interesting non-profit ranking

[Andrew Gray]

On 03/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> > http://www.alexa.org/data/details/traffic_details?url=wikimedia.org
> >
> > So 21% of wikimedia.org hits are for commons, and 73% are to
> > upload.wikimedia.org (for images, probably the vast majority being
> > inline Wikipedia images).
>
> Whats confusing about this data is that almost every hit to EnWp
> results in an upload hit, yet it shows up much lower.  I can't say
> that I like their counting methods. :)

ISP-side image caching comes into it, perhaps? After all, the content
of pages changes a lot faster than the images they include do...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk