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Website Benchmarks
Wikipedia is awesome. Not only does it provide a valuable free source of semi-reliable information, but it also provides a web traffic benchmark of sorts.
Currently, all of Wikipedia, including the photos and audio, fits in less than 5 terabytes of storage. The text alone is less than 500 MB compressed. With the new servers and the new media editing services, Vibber expects Wikipedia to be using 10 TB to 15 TB by the end of 2009.
Alexa.com, Compete.com and others report estimates on Wikipedia’s traffic — so that provides a sense of what a “successful” online community can generate… It would be interesting to compare sites like Facebook, WoW, etc. to see what kind of activity exists on a variety of sites. (March 2009 — Facebook seems to have about 90M unique visitors, and Wikipedia has about 66M.) So does Facebook need to store more than 10TB of data for its users?
