4 Oct

Numbers, Numbers, Numbers

October 4th, 2007 — 3:31 pm — Dave

I’ve been spending a little bit of time today cleaning up slate and making sure we have Google Analytics for all the sites. Just wanted to share some numbers that I’ve found out.

We now have 71 live sites. We had 15 live sites as of Feb. 11. So we’ve added 56 sites in ~33 weeks or ~1.69 sites a week. Check out our updated list of sites. We still have quite a number of sites waiting in the wings. To me the 1.69 number is pretty crazy and we’ve done a fair bit of work outside of just the sites in slate.

Over two weeks (Sept. 19-Oct. 3) we served up 139,313 pages. That’s a little more than a page every 10 seconds on average during that time period. Also, it’s 2.78 times more pages than we were serving up around Feb. 11 (69,000+/wk vs. 25,000+/wk). So on average over a month we’re now serving over a quarter of a million pages with slate. Not to shabby.

Overall slate currently has the following:

  • 3,549 pages
  • 4,753 resources (e.g. images, pdfs, etc. but doesn’t include themes)
  • 526 blog articles
  • 34,434 submitted comments though a fair number have been marked as ‘rejected’

All I have to say is wow!

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#1: Steve said on Oct 4 at 4:12 pm

Congrats and great news!

Does this mean that slate is finally mature enough? ;) I’d love to try it out.

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#2: Dave said on Oct 4 at 4:45 pm

Unfortunately handling a large number of sites was not among my criteria for being mature enough :) The keys at the moment are ease of customization and ease of deployment. We’re coming along on the customization end but have been a little stymied recently because of some extra projects. We actually talked really briefly about deployment issues over a late lunch. I know both of us want to get back to the project and I, for one, would like to get it out to the world. Just a matter of time at the moment.

Thanks for expressing the interest though. It’s encouraging.

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#3: xyz said on Oct 6 at 4:43 pm

I’m waiting for the same thing as Steve. Understandably it won’t happen until Slate is ready, but how about releasing small parts of it, just to make it juicy. For example, I’d love to take a look at the database schema.

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