Re:Secret message in source code of Digg
by mattmaroon on Sunday November 02, 2008 @12:50PM
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Obviously Digg didn't read the Sequoia presentation. Cutting that out would extend their runway by at least 2 seconds.
You left out the fact that use gzip to compress their pages. So the real answer is - even less.
Re:Secret message in source code of Digg
by maximilian on Sunday November 02, 2008 @01:16PM
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How does that work? Is the page sent gzipped and my computer un-gzips it? (and what specifically does that..do browsers do that?)
Yep. The browser sends an "Accept-Encoding" header as part of its request (with a list of what it supports). And the server can respond back with one of the encodings listed. Most modern browser support compression I believe.
Re:Secret message in source code of Digg
by maximilian on Sunday November 02, 2008 @01:26PM
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Thats pretty kickin. If I made websites for a living I would look into that further.
Re:Secret message in source code of Digg
by kirubakaran on Sunday November 02, 2008 @07:49PM
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gzipping saves bandwidth at the cost of cpu cycles. So it may or may not be a good idea, depending on what you are trying to save.
Re:Secret message in source code of Digg
by bkbleikamp on Sunday November 02, 2008 @03:14PM
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Most people who work on large scale websites know about it :)
58667 digg-orig.html
14585 digg-orig.html.gz
58560 digg-noegg.html
14524 digg-noegg.html.gz
Yep, I remembered about compression after I posted.
So did you have anything to do with this hidden message? :p
The message itself is 106 bytes.
Digg gets ~70 million US visits per month (Compete), with 50% traffic from the US (Alexa), and average ~5 page views per user (Compete & Alexa). So let's say 700 million page views a month.
700,000,000 * 106 = 74,200,000,000 bytes/month ~= 70 gigabytes/month.
Slicehost charges $20 for 100 gigabytes/month. I'm assuming Digg pays for unmetered bandwidth, which should come out to a lot less.
So, I guess the answer is - not much.