[Foundation-l] Site notice suggestion needed.

[Alex]

Brion Vibber wrote:
> 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

Based on Domas's pageview stats[1] for the past 14 days (11/21 - 12/04)
we get an average of 4112 pageviews per second, 4.9 billion total views
for the 2 week period. The results per day are available at [2].

Out of curiosity, I also checked the 3 days around the recent US
election day (11/03 - 11/05), the average views per second was 4599, an
additional 42 million pageviews per day on average (though that's
somewhat misleading, as that range is only weekdays and the number of
pageviews tends to decrease significantly on weekends)

[1] <http://dammit.lt/wikistats/> Caution: fairly large page
[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mr.Z-man/views>
-- 
Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man)