Comment by pinkmuffinere
5 days ago
> one of the more important and trafficked properties on the Internet.
I like HN, but it's really only important within a very niche subset of the Internet, and it also doesn't have much traffic. There's like a single post submitted every two minutes. That's not much.
Given how often a link that makes it to the front page struggles to serve the incoming traffic from HN, it's fair to say HN is quite efficient
I think [being unable to handle peak load] does not imply efficiency. Unless perhaps this is a joke that I’m misunderstanding?
Nonetheless, i suspect that HN probably is quite efficient, just based on what I know about dang. Even so, the parent claim was that it was popular and important, not that it was efficient
I wonder what % of users submit posts and browse new submissions on here and on reddit.
90-9-1 principal is considered the truth, though I've not seen any rigorous studies to back that up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/s2dvr4/the_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
At the very least I'm confident it's a power-law distribution. 90-9-1 seems like a reasonable first-order estimate (but I've also seen no data)
I think it’s single digit percentages that have an account.