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ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
Posted by Michael on 4 March 2004, 04:00 GMT

An epic milestone in the development of ticalc.org was reached today: The 500,000,000th request. That's right, we've now served half a billion requests. Also, during the period from April 1997 to the present, our traffic has totaled 8.43 terabytes. For those of you interested in more such statistics, the Web Server Statistics page has a complete breakdown of our traffic.

We would like to thank you, the users, for bringing ticalc.org to where it is today. We hope to continue to serve the community and reach new levels of success in the future.

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Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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This is [probably] a really stupid question, but what are requests, exactly? I'm guessing this is similar to a "hit" on a webpage. Am I close? :-\

Reply to this comment    4 March 2004, 20:56 GMT


Re: Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
Morgan Davies  Account Info
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Well this is a guess but I think it is correct.

Anytime the server has to send information to a computer. So anytime you click on a page to load it or download a file. And there is probably more that I don't know of. I'll let someone else inform us on that.

Reply to this comment    4 March 2004, 21:25 GMT


Re: Re: Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
Drantin  Account Info

From checking my own (admittedly much, much smaller) apache log (of which most hits seem to be people with nimda like worms) it seems to be every item on every page (the HTML file, and all images on it, and the favicon sometimes (IE doesn't usually show these...))

Reply to this comment    5 March 2004, 18:31 GMT

Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
MMfan  Account Info
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wait, what do you mean "requests"? Do you mean there have been half a billion of questions asking for something in particular? god, what a bunch of whinners ¬_¬

Reply to this comment    4 March 2004, 21:39 GMT


Re: Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
aquanight  Account Info

A "request" in Internet terms is any time your browser goes to the web site and says, "I'd like to order your http://www.ticalc.org/ special!"
The server responds to your request with the web page.

Reply to this comment    5 March 2004, 18:22 GMT

Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
Nick Disabato  Account Info
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Who wants to bet how many of those requests were from ticalc.org staff members?

;)

Reply to this comment    4 March 2004, 22:17 GMT

Re: Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
angelboy Account Info
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Not half a billion ;)

Reply to this comment    4 March 2004, 22:35 GMT


Re: Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
aquanight  Account Info

Maybe I should step in and note that maybe not all of the requests were actual pageloads?

A "request" is anytime the browser requests the information from the server. The server responds with the HTML content of the page requested. If that page contains <img> tags, the browser builds a list of images to request (an <img> tag is not counted if it is the exact same URL as another one already seen), then does an HTTP GET for those images as well. So a web page with 30 _different_ pictures will generate 31 requests, even though there was only one pageload.

Thus, in an image-heavy site, # requests become less meaningful than # pageloads. A pageload could be seen as a request for any file with a MIME Type of text/* (be it text/plain, text/html, or whatever). Depending on site content you could add some application/* categories as well (such as application/ms-word if you are .DOC file heavy).

Reply to this comment    5 March 2004, 18:28 GMT

Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
AndySoft  Account Info
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Yay! Maybe the 1 billion mark will be hit in less time than the .5 billion mark. ;)

Reply to this comment    5 March 2004, 11:52 GMT

Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
geologie  Account Info

Can "you" tell me what is a REQUEST. does it represent a downlaod?

Reply to this comment    6 March 2004, 21:53 GMT


Re: Re: ticalc.org Reaches 500,000,000 Requests
darkhydra21 Account Info

oh boy. Haven't you read the thread above? a request is when a server retrieves information from a given website, in this case, http://www.ticalc.org. So that means that .5 billion pages, pictures, downloads, etc. have been requested from www.ticalc.org

Reply to this comment    17 March 2004, 04:30 GMT
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