A very busy Christmas/Boxing Day for RedFlagDeals.com!
It was a very busy Christmas/Boxing Week for all of us at RedFlagDeals.com, but it's our servers that faced the brunt of it! Just for fun, I thought I would share some quick stats from our busiest time of the year!
Here's a quick recap of December 2007's traffic:
Visits: 4,860,053
Unique Visitors: 1,748,766
Page Views: 38,123,461
Peak Day: December 24, 2007
Visits: 292,761
Unique Visitors: 185,843 (peak uniques was Dec. 25 - 189,165)
Page Views: 3,439,458
And here's a graph to help you visualize what sort of spike the servers have to deal with. The first graph shows visitors:
This graph shows the daily pageviews:
Thankfully, it's a fairly predictable spike, so we were able to upgrade our hardware this Fall and rent a few extra servers during December to handle the flyer downloads. We served nearly 6 million flyer pages this year!