The Agonist keeps going after a bandwidth crunch yesterday afternoon. Supposedly had 90,000 hits yesterday, but no explanation of what that means (raw server requests? page loads? unique visitors?) There was a mention of him in the NYT today that I haven't seen yet, so I'll assume that number is going way up today. Maybe in the Wall St. Journal as well? He is doing a great job, but at a certain point his model will break down.

Jorn is in the comments, and I saw at least one posting with advice on reducing bandwidth. I couldn't agree more. The page is freakin' huge (over 120k!) I think he should get rid of the graphics and put all the side links on a secondary 'links' page, and reduce the length of the page to just the last three posts. That would get the page size down to around 12k.

Instead, he's going with mirrors (i.e., duplicating the site onto other servers and encouraging people to hit the mirrors instead of the main site.) But this won't work because the reason people are reading him is for up to the minute (second) news, and the mirrors are lagging in time. So what's the point?

In any case, this is the most important blog story ever, I think, and I hope he is able to stay up under the load.
- jim 3-25-2003 5:51 pm

i think its unique visitors. he had another day with something like 50000 unique and 130000 pageloads so i assume 90000 wouldnt be interesting unless it was more than previously noted. heres the nyt bit. (gotsta scroll down)
- dave 3-25-2003 8:12 pm


Nick Denton is also quoted (saying what exactly I'm not sure). The Times calls him "publisher of the Gawker, a site for New York news" but from what I've heard, all the political stuff is on his personal weblog. Being publisher even of a gossip mag still sounds better than "Nick Denton, blogger" apparently. I'm not sure if that's Denton's or the Times' fault.
- tom moody 3-25-2003 8:31 pm





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