In just over a month, MacRumors.com has provided coverage of two major Apple events, including the launches of the Mac Pro, Leopard, new iPods and the 'iTV'. Using the specially developed MacRumorsLive system, we have once again been able to reliably provide coverage to up to 97,000 visitors simultaneously.
During the 2006 WWDC keynote we served almost 55 GB of data at rates of up to 110 Mbit/sec. If not for the efficiency of the MacRumorsLive AJAX update system, the same webcast would have required approximately twice as many servers and would have had to transfer almost 5 times as much data (270 GB).
Visitors used Safari and Firefox almost equally, with only 13% using Internet Explorer.
A summary of the statistics for both events is included below.
WWDC 2006 Statistics
The following stats were collected on MacRumorsLive.com over a 24 hour period, but 95% of the traffic was generated during a 6 hour window.
Totals
Hits 24,127,672
Pages 1,546,783
Visits 226,846
Unique IPs 184,278
Web data transfered 55.80 GB
Peaks
Hits/second (1 minute average) : 3,638
IRC users : 3,334
Estimated peak simultaneous web visitors : 94,000
Peak bandwidth (5 minute average) : ~110mbit/sec
From web log analysis
58% Mac, 38% Windows
42% Safari, 38% Firefox, 13% Internet Explorer
36% of visitors spent more than 1 hour on the site
89% of data transfered was text
Others
Estimated web data transfer without AJAX : 270.8 GB
Web log size : 5.1GB
Average hits/second during keynote : 2,417
Hits per second graph
![hits-20060807.png]( "hits-20060807.png")
Digg vs Slashdot
This graph shows a comparison of the number of visitors per minute that visited MacRumorsLive via Digg and Slashdot.
![digg-vs-slashdot.png]( "digg-vs-slashdot.png")
The first digg spike at the very start is caused by this story reaching digg's front page and the second larger spike is due to the Mac Pro story also reaching the front page.
The difference between Digg and Slashdot is significant, however it's likely that this isn't a fair comparison. Since Slashdot only posted the link after the keynote ended, a large percentage of users who would have normally clicked on the link will have already been on macrumorslive.com.
During the 2006 WWDC keynote we served almost 55 GB of data at rates of up to 110 Mbit/sec. If not for the efficiency of the MacRumorsLive AJAX update system, the same webcast would have required approximately twice as many servers and would have had to transfer almost 5 times as much data (270 GB).
Visitors used Safari and Firefox almost equally, with only 13% using Internet Explorer.
A summary of the statistics for both events is included below.
WWDC 2006 Statistics
The following stats were collected on MacRumorsLive.com over a 24 hour period, but 95% of the traffic was generated during a 6 hour window.
Totals
Hits 24,127,672
Pages 1,546,783
Visits 226,846
Unique IPs 184,278
Web data transfered 55.80 GB
Peaks
Hits/second (1 minute average) : 3,638
IRC users : 3,334
Estimated peak simultaneous web visitors : 94,000
Peak bandwidth (5 minute average) : ~110mbit/sec
From web log analysis
58% Mac, 38% Windows
42% Safari, 38% Firefox, 13% Internet Explorer
36% of visitors spent more than 1 hour on the site
89% of data transfered was text
Others
Estimated web data transfer without AJAX : 270.8 GB
Web log size : 5.1GB
Average hits/second during keynote : 2,417
Hits per second graph
Digg vs Slashdot
This graph shows a comparison of the number of visitors per minute that visited MacRumorsLive via Digg and Slashdot.
The first digg spike at the very start is caused by this story reaching digg's front page and the second larger spike is due to the Mac Pro story also reaching the front page.
The difference between Digg and Slashdot is significant, however it's likely that this isn't a fair comparison. Since Slashdot only posted the link after the keynote ended, a large percentage of users who would have normally clicked on the link will have already been on macrumorslive.com.
