8.64 Trillion Hits in One Day!
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.
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.
Photo by kaunjeetega.in.
Editor’s note: I include this post as a demonstration of the power of the Internet.
Scott Quitter on May 19th, 2009 6:10 am
Wow, I wouldn’t mind just getting a tenth of one percent of that traffic. LOL
Jaclyn on May 19th, 2009 8:06 am
That is definitely a show of some serious traffic to just one site! However, it’s too bad that the site couldn’t handle the heavy traffic that was coming it’s way, i’m sure if those little kinks can be worked out then the site will do far more hits that it already has.
Izzy on May 19th, 2009 9:50 am
That is an amazing amount of traffic. but then again, its more analogous to a live event, since between elections the website traffic would be almost nil.
a site like that should have been using a system that would allow for pretty much an unlimited number of traffic via mirrors…
Indian powerhouse websites, say Google India, would/ should have been contacted to provide to service in exchange for free publicity….
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