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Seriously, you think one in every 2000 people on Earth, from newborn Vietnamese infants to elderly Masai tribesman, logging onto NASA.gov to read about a relatively low budget mission to be a poor showing?

Yes, I do. A relatively minor web site like littlethings.com has more than that many unique visitors per day . Heck, slashdot had more visitors in its heydays.

According to Google, there are 2.94 billion internet users. According to Nielsen, internet users on average visited 5.50 science related web pages per month (in 2010).
And NASA in total managed to capture 0.021% of those science related visits? Yes, I call that a PR failure. If Alice Bowman had had a wardrobe malfunction, it would have generated far more traffic.

It was a huge scientific happening. Likely the biggest one since the Voyager flybys of the gas and ice giants. It tells us so much we didn't know.
And most people haven't even heard of it. That's downright shameful.

A few million hits in the same day, or even same hour isn't really all that much. Stackoverflow has 15 million page views a day and last I checked they still had everything hosted on a single rack. I would say that if it's down on the first day, there's probably not much they can do within a week to resolve it. Especially with the government bureaucracy that takes multiple meeting just to get any kind of change approved.

I'm not sure one's ever been done—although there is this, although it seems impossible to rely upon and, given the nature of the site's core audience, is certain to leave out all tinfoil hat wearers.

Pirate Bay was a lot smaller in 2006 and they had mostly adult ads, not the type of ads they have now. They also didn't employ as good shell company structure with their Seychelles company as they do now.

The income with torrent sites is currently around $50 per 1000 unique visitors, mostly from toolbar (those "download from fast server now"), usenet and vpn provider ads. TPB currently has global Alexa rank #84. Quantcast currently estimates TPB gets 200k unique visitors per day, and that is only US traffic. They get huge amount of traffic everywhere from the world. But just from that US traffic alone, TPB probably makes around 200000*(50/1000) = $10 000 per day.

That translates to $3 650 000 per year, almost four million dollars. And then you also have to add traffic and income from all the other countries apart from US, which probably brings the income close to ten million dollars a year.

Posted anonymously because I have also ran a torrent site. That means, I also know the kind of income such get from ads.

Since 2009 Jack of All Clouds has been putting together a survey of who the largest cloud providers are, using public data from Quantcast to figure out which of the top 500K website are powered by which cloud provider und use that data to rank those providers (and they publish the top 6 or 7 almost every month). See the January report as an example.

The top providers are Amazon (Xen), Rackspace (Xen), Linode (Xen), GoGrid (Xen), Joyent (KVM) and OpSource (ESX). Obviously the published data will miss many of the smaller vendors, but it is striking that the top 4 vendors use Xen.

The answer is here? http://www.quantcast.com/slashdot.org

I don't make much money at all and can't live on it, but I guess they made more money by having really crappy content so that people are more likely to click the ads.

Is there any better ways to make money from a free website except by forcing people to click on links? It is great advertising to be present on my site, but my visitors will simply not click on ads and advertisers don't pay for branding.

I don't make much money at all and can't live on it, but I guess they made more money by having really crappy content so that people are more likely to click the ads.

Is there any better ways to make money from a free website except by forcing people to click on links? It is great advertising to be present on my site, but my visitors will simply not click on ads and advertisers don't pay for branding.

http://www.quantcast.com/onlineauction.com/traffic

-- Andyvan

I can't see how this would possibly work for either company. Yahoo is the most visited site on the net http://www.quantcast.com/top-sites-1 and is way ahead of msn or any of it's other services. It would almost be in Microsoft's best interest to adopt all of Yahoo's online services rather than throw out Yahoo's or have both at the same time. There are so many users of both brands that they would need to co-exist, probably forever.

The news seems to be too focused on their market share of their search engines. Between Yahoo and Microsoft I think they have many services that are much better than what Google has. I don't think this needs to be an issue of Google has 66% of searches, Yahoo has 20% Microsoft has 10%.

Perhaps the two companies can share their strengths with one another. It seems to relate to the company that I work at where we bought several other competitor companies yet we sell them all still competing against each other. It's a very strange way to do business competing against yourself with all the different brands.

Quantcase analysis. Note that John McCain is so unpopular, his website doesn't even register.

Quantcast pays them for the data, which offsets the cost of the connection. In turn, Quantcast gets a usage data for people that are in the "can afford to stay at hotels" demographic. (I've always thought this was an immoral practice.) See: Quantcast FAQ: How do you collect your data?

Quantcast pays them for the data, which offsets the cost of the connection. In turn, Quantcast gets a usage data for people that are in the "can afford to stay at hotels" demographic. (I've always thought this was an immoral practice.) See: Quantcast FAQ: How do you collect your data?