On 12/18/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/18/06, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
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(And I realise Alexa numbers are less than widely
respected, but still
consider that they give us some idea of scale, i.e. we're currently in
the range of 1/5 to 1/10 Google's page views. JESUS CHRIST IT'S A LION
GET IN THE CAR)
You're giving too much credibility to the alexa data. There are sites
which are ranked somewhat lower than us which I know for a fact are
processing more req/s.
The key is *somewhat*. There are probably very few sites ranked
under, say, 30-50 (or at least under 100) that actually get more
traffic than Wikipedia. Alexa is acceptable for very rough ballparks,
although how rough exactly would be interesting to statistically
analyze.