On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:22:51PM -0700, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Jimbo wrote:
Bandwidth costs are minor, as far as I'm
concerned.
I've never even bothered to break it out from my overall
bandwidth bill. People think Wikipedia is popular, and it
is in a sense, but on a bandwidth basis, it's a small part of
what we do overall.
You may be interested in this graph;
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=6m&size=la…
These graphs look highly suspicious to me. According to alexa, wikipedia
is having more traffic than
* heise.de (very popular German IT news ticker)
* rtl.de (Germanys most popular commercial TV station)
* fokus.de, stern.de (two popular weekly news magazines)
* bild.de (most popular Yellow Press daily newspaper)
* microsoft.de
*
Britannica.com
*
sex.com is only a few places before us
This all seems very unlikely to me. I think Mav and perhaps some other
"power user" are using the alexa toolbar and their many hits adulterate
the statistics.
Regards,
JeLuF