On 6/19/12 11:21 AM, Diederik van Liere wrote:
Could you give us a ballpark estimate of how much search queries you expect per
day?
My back-of-the-envelope estimate would be fewer than 10M requests per
day. These would not be additional search queries, just requests moving
from HTTP to HTTPS servers.
My math:
I don't have have good numbers regarding Firefox's search box queries,
but I saw a Firefox usability report which estimates that only about 8%
of Firefox users haved used a non-default search engine (i.e. not
Google, but not necessarily Wikipedia) from Firefox's search box.
Page [1] says Wikipedia received about 18.0 billion page requests in
May. Page [2] says about 22% of Wikipedia requests are from Firefox users.
So a very generous upper limit might be:
18B requests/May * 22% Wikipedia users * 8% non-Google Firefox searches
= (18,000M / 31 days) * .22 * .08
= ~10 million Firefox search queries per day
[1]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/14/wikimedia-highlights-may-2012/#more-15065
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Wikimedia_.28April_2009_to_present.29
chris
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