Re:Reasons to use Phoenix instead of Rails
by WillPostForFood on Sunday November 26, 2017 @04:58PM
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Great analysis! According to Netcraft, there are > 600million websites, so assuming Alexa ignores the 550 million with near zero traffic, you can get to the .01% pretty easily. Another area I'd tweak is the skew towards SPAs. Most sites aren't SPAs, especially as you slide down the traffic rankings.
A SPA backed by rails is probably going to make at least 10 requests on page load. So in terms of actual traffic, 100k page loads during a peak hour. Assume a roughly linear peak increase/decrease and we've got roughly 1M page loads per day. 30M page loads per month.
How many websites have 30M (non-unique) page loads per month? After some rough scouting on Alexa ranks, I'd put the over-under at probably 10k US sites, and 50k worldwide. Assuming Alexa has 50M sites, then 0.1% of publicly facing sites serve that much traffic.
Rails is used often on private, internal sites and tooling. Those sites wouldn't come up. That would definitely skew the 0.1% number.
Not making a huge argument here, I just started down that analysis path out of curiosity and figured I'd share it.