Note: recent statistics are now automatically compiled, and can be found at /stats/
A proper explanation of hits vs. files served vs. pages served needs to go here. The effect of the new page-caching code on measured traffic should also be explained.
Alexa.com independently compiles traffic ranking figures, see [1] (http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=wikipedia&p=Det_W_g_40_M1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikipedia.org%2F).
Some late 2002 / early 2003 daily traffic figures for the English-language Wikipedia in hits/day:
Traffic data is measured in hits per day for each 24-hour period, from 00:00:00 UTC to 23:59:99 UTC.
Data set for the graph above:
2003 Jan 01, 153536 2003 Jan 02, 199442 2003 Jan 03, 215752 2003 Jan 04, 119583
2003 Jan 06, 130032 2003 Jan 07, 151027 2003 Jan 08, 180543 2003 Jan 09, 188562 2003 Jan 10, 141881 2003 Jan 11, 210633
2003 Feb 19, 183900 2003 Feb 20, 198233 2003 Feb 21, 209976 2003 Feb 22, 164776 2003 Feb 23, 169201 2003 Feb 24, 199651 2003 Feb 25, 238234 2003 Feb 26, 230582 2003 Feb 27, 213807 2003 Feb 28, 193870 2003 Mar 01, 170235 2003 Mar 04, 206824 2003 Mar 05, 178290 2003 Mar 06, 178856 2003 Mar 07, 195111 2003 Mar 08, 169019 2003 Mar 09, 179610 2003 Mar 10, 246672 2003 Mar 11, 286787, big slowdown on this day 2003 Mar 12, 316539, back to over 300k, problems with timeouts 2003 Mar 13, 302237, traffic is way back up again!
Average hits per hour in the period Aug 25 2002 - Sep 20 2002
Data for this graph:
hours, avg hits/hour 00, 8680 01, 8278 02, 8169 03, 7902 04, 7730 05, 7221 06, 7763 07, 7413 08, 7804 09, 8080 10, 7948 11, 7851 12, 8743 13, 9743 14, 9998 15, 10125 16, 10317 17, 10950 18, 10778 19, 10084 20, 9676 21, 9010 22, 8806 22, 8806 23, 8637
September 4, 2002: Server load average is currently running at between 5 and 6.
7:00am up 55 days, 24 min, 2 users, load average: 4.46, 5.64, 5.85
September 11, 2002:
On the first anniversary of the WTC attacks, the server was running at 13786 hits/hour in the period 20020911 20:00 to 20:59. If running continuously at this rate, this would equate to a daily hit rate of 330000 hits/day. (Note that the actual whole-day traffic for this day was only 260034 hits.) The server struggled to keep pace with the load on this day.
A few representative "uptime" results for September 11, 2002:
9:25pm up 5 days, 17:48, 1 user, load average: 4.60, 9.68, 13.22 9:34pm up 5 days, 17:56, 2 users, load average: 9.57, 8.64, 10.83 9:34pm up 5 days, 17:57, 2 users, load average: 12.76, 9.38, 11.02 9:34pm up 5 days, 17:57, 2 users, load average: 18.07, 10.80, 11.44 9:35pm up 5 days, 17:58, 2 users, load average: 19.50, 12.29, 11.93 9:40pm up 5 days, 18:03, 2 users, load average: 3.80, 7.92, 10.22 9:41pm up 5 days, 18:04, 2 users, load average: 4.96, 7.74, 10.06
In the minute 20020911 20:35, the server served 305 hits, a rate of just over 5 hits per second sustained, equivalent to a sustained rate of just under 440,000 hits/day. It did this at a loadav of around 19, rather than the typical loadav of 5 or 6.
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