Request: Support comments *everywhere*!!

[chewey]

What's the name of your list?

The third one on http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions

How many people (clicks) downloaded per day?

Roughly 100,000 on average (with peaks up to 200,000), or a bit over 3 million per month.

If one is hosting a website/forum together with the list, is it reasonable to assume that the traffic to your website/forum is very large too, and that part can consume you much bandwidth too.

The rest of my site has very low traffic.
98.48% (actual number as of August) of my traffic are from my filter subscription.

There are so many free file hosting websites nowadays.

All of those will kick you again very fast if you try hosting a file which gets multiple hits per second.

Really? I don't think so. Big file hosting websites will even host files which are hundreds of MB large. It can make for more than 100 GB per month even if the download count is not as large as you.

Why does it matter to them if they allow to host files with hundreds of MB large?

Bandwidth is not everything, latency does count as well. Even if a server is connected to
a very big pipe, it can be DoSed by swamping it with lots of requests. (Free) hosting services
want to prevent that, I'm sure their terms of service mention rate limiting one way or another.

[Peng]

Holy cow. I never would've imagined you guys were getting millions of requests a month.

I'm feeling very inadequate.

[rick752]

Hi Peng (love seeing that smiley-face again)

As of Sept 23, the stand-alone EasyList subscription received 6,978,939 hits this month already. This is a subscription that has a 5-day minimum autoupdate rate. That one subscription itself is already over 30 gig of downloads.

The EasyList is also combined with other filters too. This constitutes about another million besides the stand-alone. Then there is the EasyElement and the ABP Tracking filter which I count separate from the EasyList.

All together for the first 3 weeks (plus 2 days) of this month, the TOTAL subscription downloads from easylist.adblockplus.org is at 8,299,756 making for 42.5 gig of downloads with an average serving of 345,823 subscriptions a day.

It's too bad that today isn't in the stats yet. Mondays are the largest days (because of the 7-day cycle for work machines) .... Mondays have been downloading at or slightly over 500,000 downloads per day.

So there ya' go. Can you imagine if these were DAILY updates?

[Wladimir Palant]

Rick, you can see the stats for Monday as well now.

[rick752]

Rick, you can see the stats for Monday as well now.

Ah:
Yesterday (Monday): 549,596

[Dr. Evil]

heh, OK, third place for me then

traffic-wise, yes. But I'm not proud on having caught up here... it's just because my list is so damn long.

What would that be in file requests?
August averaged nearly exactly on 100,000 per day here.

82,674 hits per day in average. So you still have .25% more hits than me.

[Guest]

What about people who maintain their own list and don't share? It makes sense to write comments so the user can understand why it is added, keep track of the items, make debugging easily, and so on.

[jamieplucinski]

What about people who maintain their own list and don't share? It makes sense to write comments so the user can understand why it is added, keep track of the items, make debugging easily, and so on.

For that there is Notepad.

[fanboy]

What about people who maintain their own list and don't share? It makes sense to write comments so the user can understand why it is added, keep track of the items, make debugging easily, and so on.

Designed my own personal interface/database, adzilla.

[rick752]

It makes sense to write comments so the user can understand why it is added, keep track of the items, make debugging easily, and so on.

That info would be larger than the filter itself. Maybe we don't want the 'wrong' people to read a personal diary of what we are blocking?