MacRumors' Webcast Stats during the MWSF 2006 Keynote
On January 10th, 2006, MacRumors delivered live updates of the Macworld San Francisco 2006 keynote speech given by Steve Jobs. Since no live Quicktime stream was made available, Mac fans had to rely on live web text updates. MacRumors.com successfully delivered live-updates to a record number of users using the latest web technologies.
After analyzing the logs, we've posted a summary of the MacRumorsLive system and the traffic that it generated.
In short, we peaked at approximately 103,000 simultaneous web visitors and over 6,000 IRC viewers during the keynote speech and consumed over 32 GB of bandwidth during the three hours surrounding the event. (For those interested, a non-AJAX version of MacRumorsLive would have required an estimated 196 GB of bandwidth over the same period of time)
After analyzing the logs, we've posted a summary of the MacRumorsLive system and the traffic that it generated.
In short, we peaked at approximately 103,000 simultaneous web visitors and over 6,000 IRC viewers during the keynote speech and consumed over 32 GB of bandwidth during the three hours surrounding the event. (For those interested, a non-AJAX version of MacRumorsLive would have required an estimated 196 GB of bandwidth over the same period of time)
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79 months ago
Interesting statistics. I wonder how many Kleenexes were soiled when the Intel iMac and MacBook Pro were announced? :D
79 months ago
:eek: 32gb of bandwidth? Jeeze the most my companies site has ever used is 60gb...in a MONTH
79 months ago
no wonder I couldn't post comments on the news stories... whoa! and that's 32 GB of mostly plain text I guess. mind-boggling.
what's the site hosting setup like? are you going to pay dearly for that bandwidth?
what's the site hosting setup like? are you going to pay dearly for that bandwidth?
79 months ago
i was following along while it was going on. pretty good work actually. macrumors had the best coverage by far as i tried to bounce between a couple other sites that were a lil behind u guys. next best thing to streaming quicktime IMO:)
79 months ago
Excellent job, congratulations to all involved for providing the best user experience to be had in this corner of the web. Here's to many more to look forward to.
79 months ago
That's pretty damn impressive. Good work guys. Very well designed site to be able to handle that kind of traffic.
79 months ago
Of all the MacWorld events ever covered by MacRumors this was the best one yet.
79 months ago
You guys did a great job in the coverage. The format was great and I enjoyed the 1 minute updates as compared to the 3 in previous years.
Thank you!
Thank you!
79 months ago
Holy Jebus!
Thats a frickin TON of bandwidth for a product announcement no one was sure of.
Yeah you guys this one down pat! Great work!
Thats a frickin TON of bandwidth for a product announcement no one was sure of.
Yeah you guys this one down pat! Great work!
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