NASA website

Ramrod · 20-02-2004, 19:55

NASA Site Logs Over 6 Billion Hits
February 20, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- NASA said on Thursday that its Web portal has received 6.53 billion hits since the Spirit rover landed on Mars in early January. NASA said the hit count translates into 914 million Web pages being downloaded.

"To the best of our knowledge this is the biggest government event in the history of the Internet," says Glenn Mahone, assistant administrator for the office of public affairs at NASA. "We've passed the peak traffic for the IRS Web site during tax season and for NOAA's site during Hurricane Isabel last fall. Since the rovers' missions will last 90 days each, it's possible this will wind up being the biggest single event in Internet history."

The NASA sites recorded 109 million hits in the first 24 hours after the Spirit rover first landed on Mars. In a few days, that number had jumped to 916 million hits. Speedera Networks (speedera.com) delivered the Mars content over its global network in partnership with Netherlands-based Capcave.

"What's particularly gratifying for us is that the results from our customer satisfaction survey during the peak traffic were the highest we've ever received," says Brian Dunbar, Internet services manager for NASA." So not only were we serving more people than ever, they told us we were doing the best job we've ever done."

International visitors, according to NASA, have made up 20 percent of all traffic.

.....I wonder if ntl could cope with that kind of traffic?

Richard M · 20-02-2004, 19:57

BTW - The middle of the url is "market" and "watch". :pp

Moox · 20-02-2004, 19:58

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Originally Posted by Richard M

BTW - The middle of the url is "market" and "watch". :pp

That's why the link doesn't work

Edit>> Damn the edit feature

Ramrod · 20-02-2004, 19:58

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Originally Posted by Richard M

BTW - The middle of the url is "market" and "watch". :pp

Just noticed, copied the article instead

Ramrod · 20-02-2004, 20:04

Go here and click on 'flash feature' and see how fast it loads

sir_drinks_alot · 20-02-2004, 20:05

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

NASA Site Logs Over 6 Billion Hits
February 20, 2004 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- NASA said on Thursday that its Web portal has received 6.53 billion hits since the Spirit rover landed on Mars in early January. NASA said the hit count translates into 914 million Web pages being downloaded.

"To the best of our knowledge this is the biggest government event in the history of the Internet," says Glenn Mahone, assistant administrator for the office of public affairs at NASA. "We've passed the peak traffic for the IRS Web site during tax season and for NOAA's site during Hurricane Isabel last fall. Since the rovers' missions will last 90 days each, it's possible this will wind up being the biggest single event in Internet history."

The NASA sites recorded 109 million hits in the first 24 hours after the Spirit rover first landed on Mars. In a few days, that number had jumped to 916 million hits. Speedera Networks (speedera.com) delivered the Mars content over its global network in partnership with Netherlands-based Capcave.

"What's particularly gratifying for us is that the results from our customer satisfaction survey during the peak traffic were the highest we've ever received," says Brian Dunbar, Internet services manager for NASA." So not only were we serving more people than ever, they told us we were doing the best job we've ever done."

International visitors, according to NASA, have made up 20 percent of all traffic.

.....I wonder if ntl could cope with that kind of traffic?

holy bat crap can that be true 6.53 billion hell china dose
not even have that many People living in it

Ramrod · 20-02-2004, 21:22

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Originally Posted by sir_drinks_alot

holy bat crap can that be true 6.53 billion hell china dose
not even have that many People living in it

Go have a look through the site, it's really rather good

**Maggy J** · 20-02-2004, 21:28

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Go have a look through the site, it's really rather good

I second that.It's worth it just for the piccy's alone.Let alone anything else you may find.

The main NASA site is terrific too.

sir_drinks_alot · 20-02-2004, 21:29

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Go here and click on 'flash feature' and see how fast it loads

man that was fast now if only nhw was that quick to load

dilligaf1701 · 06-04-2005, 15:48

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04...ves_extension/

I'm quite impressed that they're still going to be honest

Richard M · 06-04-2005, 16:29

I just started reading this thread as if it was new - then saw the date.

TheBlueRaja · 06-04-2005, 16:50

6.53 BILLION!!!

Isnt that about the population of the planet?

jellybaby · 06-04-2005, 16:54

lol.....me too

SMHarman · 06-04-2005, 17:03

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Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

6.53 BILLION!!!

Isnt that about the population of the planet?

Oh, the myth of hits.
A hit is a request for information to a server, so loading this page will result in many many hits. The css file, the html file, all the gif images, the smilies on the bottom of the page, any images posters have attached etc. So this page I count over 60 hits.
As the nasa article alludes, this is 914 million pages served. A much more sensible - though less impressive stat.