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benjojo posted 27 May 2025 13:58 +0000

Reminder that being #1 or #2 on hacker news is about 1.5 page loads per second. If your side explodes when it hits HN, something has gone horribly wrong on your end

A graph showing a background noise of 0.3 or so, and it spikes to 1.5 to 1 requests per second

benjojo replied 27 May 2025 14:32 +0000
in reply to: https://suya.place/objects/907800c3-8abe-478c-af62-0b1d060bbe2d

@a1ba I dunno, 1-2 page opens/s is pretty decent numbers. it's still one of the largest sources of traffic a blog can get.

Here is a requests per second (not page loads) graph of what HN (the first spike) looks like compared to the last bump that is the being on the front page of golem.de and heise.de, two reasonably large publications in germany

A graph with two big spikes at the start (15/s) and middle (5/s), and a bump at the end (3/s), the average is less than 0.5/s

Flyingmana@phpc.soci.. replied 27 May 2025 16:17 +0000
in reply to: https://benjojo.co.uk/u/benjojo/h/533WtkYXhGwl3m42cv

@benjojo one problem is, you talk of avarages, but having like 50 requests at the same second, additionally to your normal traffic can cascade down, even more if they then click through the side and hit multiple uncached pages and functionalities.

(Still should be able to handle it, but usually thats not part of the prioritieres compared to features)

benjojo replied 27 May 2025 16:34 +0000
in reply to: https://phpc.social/users/Flyingmana/statuses/114580694870269034

@Flyingmana Ok sure, but the "50 requests at the same second" basically only happens for the first 2 seconds you appear on the front page (or you are linked in fediverse), everything after should be easy.

I'm not talking about sites getting slow for a second, I am talking about sites getting "KO'd" by being on hacker news, when that means about 1 to 2 full page loads a second