The day before India's Lok Sabha elections, the country's election commission made a new Web site live to provide election results in real-time. The commisson overbuilt the site, so it thought, readying it for almost 3,000 hits per second--that's 80.6 billion hits in a single 8-hour day. (Below, a supporter of India's victorious Congress party.)
The six-day voting process was supposed to culminate on Saturday, May 16, but the servers were crashing, and updating stopped. TV channels and newspapers that had been counting on the site's accuracy were flailing. The servers, which live at India's National Informatics Centre, couldn't be fixed until early Sunday morning. The final hit-count: 8.64 trillion hits in just eight hours, far more than top-visited sites like Google, that gets only 5,300 visits per second, or 460 million per day. You can view the results of the elections here.
[Via Times of India]
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Recent Comments | 2 Total
May 18, 2009 at 12:48pm by Emil Björklund
Impressive numbers, but I suspect a lot of people will get little out of them: hits (as in the more technical HTTP-requests, if that is what is meant) are not the same as visits (as in unique users viewing the website, potentially, and probably, using many requests). When visiting a page, every component of that page is fetched using a request: the source code for the page itself, images in the page, graphics, audio clips, videos or what ever else the page is composed of. Clicking about on that site, every page makes a multitude of requests when it's loading.
Google having 460 million visits in a day says nothing about how many hits/requests that is unless you have a figure on how many requests (on average) per visit.
July 25, 2009 at 2:31pm by Ram Chandran
This Proves that Indians are one of the most biggest internet users. Very interesting figures you've got!
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