[Foundation-l] Interesting non-profit ranking

[geni]

On 03/10/2007, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>

I suspect that it only thinks you are viewing a page on
upload.wikimedia.org when you chose to view an image at full size.

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geni