> In the world top from eRatings, Macromedia.com is around the 23th place. > Here are the sites with a similar or higher load : > 1 Yahoo 120 763 (000 unique visitors) > 2 MSN 110 736 > 3 AOL Time Warner 95 282 > 4 Microsoft 80 934 > 5 Google 72 523 > 6 eBay 48 895 > 7 Amazon 47 216 > 8 Lycos Network 46 135 > 9 About-Primedia 33 896 > 10 CNet Networks 23 194 > 11 Wanadoo 20 764 > 12 Sony 20 763 > 13 Walt Disney Internet 19 599 > 14 T-Online 18 397 > 15 Sharman Networks 18 088 > 16 Infospace 17 893 > 17 Vivendi Universal 17 342 > 18 Real Networks > 19 Tiscali 15 670 > 20 Viacom International 15 334 > 21 The Gator Corporation 15 151 > 22 Rakuten 15 106 > 23 Macromedia 14 681 > I don't believe the above is very accurate. How many of the page views and unique visitors that Macromedia gets are for Flash player downloads? I'd guess most, which IMHO means that Macromedia's site isn't quite the web property they make it out to be.
> Do you have any figures that shows that they scale better that > Macromedia.com? > It would be interesting to know what are the configuration of such web > sites. > Usually such hosting/architecture info are fully confidential. > As I stated, there is no publicly available information on Macromedia's scalability, which is why I felt you were making false assumptions. > The other problem is that, it is always difficult to compare the > scalability > of such sites... most of them are "nearly 95% static content" web sites > (change once a day), which means content caching can be heavily used to > handle the load. > Don't forget that some parts of Macromedia.com (mainly the RIAs) are fully > dynamic applications. > I don't see what static or dynamic content has to do with scalability. Certainly dynamic sites are more sensitive to scalability than static ones, but that doesn't make them difficult to compare. With the correct tools, scalability is an easy thing to measure. -Matt ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
