[Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

[Brion Vibber]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, effe iets anders
> <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthly.htm
>>
>> More then 10 billion page views per month... (or 3900 page views per second)
> 
> 24 hour average HTTP request rate is 46347. So thats 120,131,424,000
> HTTP requests per month. I have a hard time believing that we're
> averaging more than 12 HTTP requests per page view on average. I think
> something is inaccurate, and I think the HTTP request rate the more
> trustworthy number.

Sounds on the right order of magnitude to me. I just tried a full-reload
on a random short article with no images:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._Harlan

which totaled 25 HTTP requests (including the fundraiser notice banner):

1 HTML page
3 static style sheets
3 dynamic style sheets
4 static JavaScripts
2 dynamic JavaScripts
1 fundraising banner JS
3 fundraising banner images
8 UI images (logo, background, icons)

If you hit multiple pages, more of those will be cached, but you'll end
up loading additional images as well.

At some point we'll probably do some more consolidation on the CSS and
JS files that get loaded most frequently to reduce the number of server
round-trips on a first hit.

- -- brion
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iEYEARECAAYFAkk5pusACgkQwRnhpk1wk45WwQCeIfMsPWF8brft4ouFhMK1qLfF
q38AnRs3G4oAJa2UAlYk9bJq5jBXRD8p
=H4ch
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----