I totally agree with the reporter; Tumblr could surely benefit from a bit more transparency. Although David is right; they are being forced to support plugins like the missing-e.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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Tumblr’s main page is loaded a crap ton of times (1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month); I can’t seem to understand how come they are wasting soo much money sending out this fancy ASCII art and making their pages load slower; Here in Canada; bandwidth isn’t cheap. So here is a little math on how much this costs them.
That little comment contains 514 bytes of information. 1 GB of download over the cap here in Canada is 50 cent per GB. Thanks Rogers.
(514 bytes) / (1 gigabyte) = 4.78699803 × 10-7 gigabytes
Factoring the expensive Canadian over usage rate.
(4.78699803 × (10^(-7))) * .50 cents = 2.39349901 × 10-7 cents per page view.
Now lets say they have a modest month and have about 1 billion page views and lets say 50% of those result in a page with this very expensive ASCII art. So we are looking at 500 million page views with this in it.
(2.39349901 × (10^(-7))) * 500 000 000 = 119.67495 dollars a month
Umm this isn’t as shocking as I was hoping it would be. 119.67 Canadian dollars a month is a high price to pay for ASCII art, that most people won’t see.
Note: I am not here to argue math and whether not it loads the ASCII art; or if that many page views *really happened* just thought it would be funny to do a little math and attach a ball park number to the cost of this beautiful beautiful ASCII art that Tumblr gladly foots the bill for.
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