Patterns by day of the week would also be interesting.
My entirely
subjective observation is that there are fewer people around on a
Saturday night.
I'm pretty sure there actually are fewer people around.
I say this because there used to be a graph of number of web requests
at:
http://wikimedia.org/stats/live/org.wikimedia.all.squid.requests-hits.html
The Internet Archive has a picture-less cache of it here:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://wikimedia.org/stats/live/org.wikimedia.…
*However* it does not have the images, which were the useful bits....
so you'll probably just have to make do of my summary of them.
Basically what that graphs showed was:
* Oscillating within a day, presumably to reflect peak times / off
peak times for the US and Europe, with peak load presumably falling in
the overlap of business hours between the two.
* Varying within a week. Saturday and Sunday were substantially
quieter. Most of the weekdays were fairly similar, but Monday was a
little bit quieter than the rest (people coping with the Monday work
rush?), whilst Wednesday was the busiest day of all (work rush
partially coped with?), and Friday was a little bit quieter (thinking
about the weekend?).
Hope that helps.
All the best,
Nick.