Mine and my mates site GetInspired365.com has just been featured on BBC Click - http://t.co/0OmbHSSwuk - and were staggered to see we had 250 people on our site at one point. What's the most you've had on your site? Just interested to see as means of a comparison against other sites.<p>By the way, if you're able to get a small mention on BBC Click, we'd highly recommend it. We've seen some great triffic and feedback since our mention.
Over a hundred thousand. I was the Senior Web Producer (head geek) at Bravo, the cable channel, and we did live voting during "Project Runway" first-run episode commercial breaks, where viewers would respond to on-air questions either through our site or through SMS. Vote tallies were displayed during later commercial breaks, after a competitor had been eliminated. People who voted would also be entered in contests to get prizes and their names splashed on screen during the live broadcasts.<p>Then we'd do it all again, live, for the West Coast airing of the episode, the same night.<p>Season finale episodes brought roughly a bajillion people to our site simultaneously, because everyone wanted to "participate" in telling the world which contestant they wanted to win the season.<p>Thank God for Akamai...
I'm curious about what you mean by 'most amount of people you have had on your site at one time'. This can mean a few different things...<p>1) For monitoring applications like Chartbeat, IIRC they count a user as concurrent if they are on the site anytime within the past 30 seconds.
2) I've seen real-time monitoring systems count a concurrent user as any visitor in the last 5 seconds.
3) Lastly, the only real raw numbers that I've seen are the traffic hits through an F5 load balancer to a set of backend servers, and that is the only number that will give you an unbiased # hits per second in real-time. Unfortunately, this amounts to requests (HTML) to the server and may not be a 1:1 ratio with users.<p>So in terms of what I've seen, it depends on the type of calls and the application. For the EA forums (forums.ea.com) which I was in charge of up until March 2013...<p>For #1, forums would regularly reach 15,000 on the launch of a new game. We would sustain that for ~12 hours [1]. On just an average normal non-event day, it pushes 3000 concurrents.
For #2, I've seen something north of 3000 for EA forums.
For #3, the F5 would report peaks of 200 requests per second.<p>When I built the Campus Wide Login (<a href="http://www.cwl.ubc.ca" rel="nofollow">http://www.cwl.ubc.ca</a>) SSO auth system for UBC about 11 years ago (still in use today) we would have almost 50-75% of the full campus using it at once, which is about 30k concurrents (unfortunately I didn't have access to the numbers over the F5 LB). However, most of these calls were for the HTML which then went through an SOA (XML-RPC, ugh) architecture, so I'm sure the req/s was much higher on the XML-RPC backend.<p>[1] this is a feat in itself because most of the forum data is not cached because the business wanted the data in real-time, so the read databases would receive a lot of traffic when the web servers spiked.<p>Edit: formatting
Our company (www.radfan.com) was featured on BBC News Look North for 90 seconds (no web address mentioned so pure google searches) and I watched our google analytics real time climb to 1200 people simultaneous.<p>We were on BBC Radio 2 Drive Time the Friday before (web address mentioned this time) and we got about the same.<p>Shopify did an amazing job dealing with the traffic spike.<p>Good job getting on Click, that's awesome. We got lucky with the bad weather in March making our launch a relevant story.
From 1 to 20 then down to about 3 on average now. I've had my project (<a href="https://writeapp.me" rel="nofollow">https://writeapp.me</a>) on HN a few times but it really went nowhere. Recently however its been featured on MakeUseOf at least twice, Web Appstorm, and a number of other tech/teacher blogs.<p>Before the MakeUseOf article I'd get 3 to 10 hits a day with 1 visitor at a time. After the first MakeUseOf article it went to about 20 at a time for about a day. After that the site has been picked up by other blogs (some of them review it multiple times on different days) so the traffic has increased about 100% from pre-review levels and has been holding steady at about 100-ish visitors a day and 3 users at a time normally. Note that there are obviously periods in the day where its 0 because you can't have 100 uniques and 3 visitors on site at the same time all day. The math doesn't add up. I'm just talking about what I see whenever I check my analytics which is pretty often during the weekdays.
I used to be the tech lead for the UI and much of the infrastructure behind ovidsp.ovid.com. We regularly had 20000-50000 concurrent user sessions active. Each one had a dedicated backend process, so we had an exact count of active users. The UI served over 1 billion http requests per year... using a custom http server I wrote in Perl :)
About 20 on average and 30 in rare occasions. It's a media player app for chrome with about 5k active weekly users.<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/achshar-player/fddboknafkepdchidokknkeidnaejnkh" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/achshar-player/fdd...</a>
Ten people at the same time is my max for a personal project (<a href="http://sproutsheet.com" rel="nofollow">http://sproutsheet.com</a> or <a href="http://sproutshit.com" rel="nofollow">http://sproutshit.com</a> as the haters like to call it) when I linked it on reddit.
I had about 180 according to Google Analytics for <a href="http://maxburstein.com/blog/python-shortcuts-for-the-python-beginner/" rel="nofollow">http://maxburstein.com/blog/python-shortcuts-for-the-python-...</a><p>It was at the top of Hacker News and /r/programming for a little bit. It stayed pretty constant at that level for about half the day.<p>My first post to get over 120 users at a time was <a href="http://maxburstein.com/blog/creating-resume-using-latex/" rel="nofollow">http://maxburstein.com/blog/creating-resume-using-latex/</a><p>It was at the top of /r/programming with over 1000 points so it was also getting some traffic from /r/all.
My side-project (<a href="http://www.quizme.se" rel="nofollow">http://www.quizme.se</a>) got posted to a decent sized facebook-group and peaked at 400 active visitors. Then the postgres-server stalled at 100% CPU-usage and the site went down. I was at day-work and could not do much about it.<p>The hourly graph from Google analytics looks like this: <a href="https://www.diigo.com/item/p/podoedezbpdaaccrczbabdsacq/05ebb740128f9f599c8e4caed72a27f3" rel="nofollow">https://www.diigo.com/item/p/podoedezbpdaaccrczbabdsacq/05eb...</a>
It depends on where I pull the traffic from:
when I post on social networks, like Tumblr, I usually get at most 3 concurrent at a time.
If they come from direct source they are usually more spread around the clock also due to their time zones differences.
The peak I had was when I wrote a comment on the Sex channel on Reddit right after the launch of my platform (<a href="http://www.sexycrets.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sexycrets.com</a>) a few months ago.
178K is the biggest I can find a screenshot proof of: <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Aa7f-uvCMAQF1th.png" rel="nofollow">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Aa7f-uvCMAQF1th.png</a><p>Thats on one site out of 8 that share the same cluster/platform, so the net total would have been in the mid 200K's.<p>edit: props to chartbeat for even being able to track such things, I'm just scaling reads, they're scaling writes.
My site made it to #1 on hacker news last wednesday for a couple of hours. It peaked at 287 concurrents. Unfortunately, I wasn't expecting that kind of surge and only had it on a small linode, so it couldn't handle the traffic. Since then, I've moved it to an S3 bucket with cloudfront as a cdn. <a href="http://www.appraptor.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.appraptor.com</a>
I was one of two developers on a social media network in Norway, at peak hours (from about 20:00 till 22:00) we had 60.000 unique users with activity within the last 10 minutes. This generated about 400 dynamic req/s and about 6000 static req/s. We managed this sustained traffic with a total of 12 webservers (apache + memcached), 4 databases (mysql) and 6 Varnishes.
Main Site: Around 2000 IIRC, before it crashed, anyway. This was back in the days of Digg, and less robust hosting. Average is 150-250 at a time, less at night, more during the day.<p>Micro-Site: We set up an experimental just-for-fun site with a bit of a viral edge and got 1.1 million visitors in one day, mostly from China - it apparently front-paged on a few major sites over there.
When one of my articles made it to the #2 spot on Hacker News, I was watching my Google Analytics Real-Time stats pretty closely. It got as high as ~700 people on at one point.
(Here's the submission: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062761" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5062761</a>)
No idea how many at one time however I did get 50,000 hits for a post on my blog that sat in the HN top 10 for most of a day. That's like 34 hits a minute so I can safely assume I must have hit at least 10 at a time at some point during the day.
We had 390 users at one point when we hit the HN frontpage for a very short time for this post<p><a href="http://statspotting.com/pgs-hidden-message-in-hackernews-algorithm/" rel="nofollow">http://statspotting.com/pgs-hidden-message-in-hackernews-alg...</a>
I think somewhere around 6000. Is there a way to see this easily on Google Analytics?<p>Also you have to precise. I was removing a real visitor after 30 seconds. Some websites I know are doing it after 2 minutes... It changes your numbers a lot.
284 just from someone linking to us on a comment thread on Reddit:
<a href="http://imgur.com/M6oiypj" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/M6oiypj</a><p>my site: <a href="http://www.flipmeme.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.flipmeme.com</a>
4500+ on a small "4 hour venture" project of mine. could ahve climbed to 5 or 6k, but the server crashed before. <a href="http://imgur.com/ossUOZR" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/ossUOZR</a>
around 3000 for a half hour or so when Blink-182 pushed out content to their social channels (Facebook/Twitter) using our site. Have also had slow build up to 2800 when one page went viral. The site/app is <a href="http://backspac.es" rel="nofollow">http://backspac.es</a>