How a wedding dress gets thousands of hits a minute... fromShane Conder's Whateveritis of Nothing

How a wedding dress gets thousands of hits a minute...

And this is the sort of thing that mostly goes through IM, too. IM seems to be the new method of choice for passing jokes and other things around. And it's much faster than email, in general. Not because of the technology. But because of the way people use it. I'm sure this has made plenty of other blogs, too.

After typing that paragraph, it's 15:06. And it has 758,914 hits. That's an average of 55 hits a second. At this rate, each day will produce 4,752,000 hits. The whole page size, including graphics, is 370kilobytes. That gives 1.6374886 terabytes of transfer per day. In bandwidth terms, this listing is using 19.8730469 MBps of bandwidth.

And now, at 15:15 (hey, I work too) it's got 777937 hits. In the last 9 minutes, the rate has changed to only 12.71875 MBps of bandwidth.

I'm lucky to have ebay items that get over 100 hits. The PowerMac I recently sold only got 104 hits.

Certainly, it's all the story -- and the responses. But is any of it real? Who knows. It certainly has helped make the price go up. ;)

And yes, the hits are unique... the counter will not count me twice.

And I sign out with it at 792,249 hits. Up 39,981 hits since I started this. Amazing.

[Update: it's 09:52 on the next day the hit counter on this is up to 3,568,643. It's been rolling at an average of 43.4 per second, or 15.68MBps. Amazing. What's more amazing, though: it's currently bid up to $15,100. For a $1,200 new dress? And at 10:08, it's at 3,657,941 for a 16 minute pass of 93 per second or 33.6 MBps, more than twice the average and significantly higher than yesterday. That's a rate of 8million per day.]

[Update2: Alright, the guy is now getting media coverage on TV and other sources. He's officially being called The eBay Wedding Dress Guy. The hits appear to be rolling even faster. At 11:17, I saw 4,073,693. That's up over 500k from the earlier update. 4,092,881 two minutes later, rolling at a rate of 57.8 MBps. And yes, all of these bandwidth rates are in mega_bytes_ per second. Certainly, eBay servers are very distributed to be able to handle such loads.]

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Good grief: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4146756343 Certainly, it's funny enough. Right now, 15:04, it's at 752,268 hits. When my friend first showed me, it was at 726k hits. And that was only a few minutes ago. And this is the sort of thing that mostly goes through IM, too. IM seems to be the new method of choice for passing jokes and other things around. And it's much faster than email, in general. Not because of the technology. But because of the way people use it. I'm sure this has made plenty of other blogs, too. After typing that paragraph, it's 15:06. And it has 758,914 hits. That's an average of 55 hits a second. At this rate, each day will produce 4,752,000 hits. The whole page size, including graphics, is 370kilobytes. That gives 1.6374886 terabytes of transfer per day. In bandwidth terms, this listing is using 19.8730469 MBps of bandwidth. And now, at 15:15 (hey, I work too) it's got 777937 hits. In the last 9 minutes, the rate has changed to only 12.71875 MBps of bandwidth. I'm lucky to have ebay items that get over 100 hits. The PowerMac I recently sold only got 104 hits. Certainly, it's all the story -- and the responses. But is any of it real? Who knows. It certainly has helped make the price go up. ;) And yes, the hits are unique... the counter will not count me twice. And I sign out with it at 792,249 hits. Up 39,981 hits since I started this. Amazing. [Update: it's 09:52 on the next day the hit counter on this is up to 3,568,643. It's been rolling at an average of 43.4 per second, or 15.68MBps. Amazing. What's more amazing, though: it's currently bid up to $15,100. For a $1,200 new dress? And at 10:08, it's at 3,657,941 for a 16 minute pass of 93 per second or 33.6 MBps, more than twice the average and significantly higher than yesterday. That's a rate of 8million per day.] [Update2: Alright, the guy is now getting media coverage on TV and other sources. He's officially being called The eBay Wedding Dress Guy. The hits appear to be rolling even faster. At 11:17, I saw 4,073,693. That's up over 500k from the earlier update. 4,092,881 two minutes later, rolling at a rate of 57.8 MBps. And yes, all of these bandwidth rates are in mega_bytes_ per second. Certainly, eBay servers are very distributed to be able to handle such loads.]