There's 30 videos on the front page. Mousing over the image preview of a video displays a series of preview images.
There were 76 requests made as observed from the net tab in Firebug. The majority of these requests seemed to be for those video images. Note that I'm using an adblocker and refuse to check out the site without it.
Note also that they said 300k queries. There could be constantly-running background jobs doing conversion, pulling those preview frames, and crunching numbers on the metadata.
Re:Youporn.com is now a 100% Redis Site
by memoryfault on Thursday February 16, 2012 @01:23PM
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Perhaps the 300k/s figure was at peak load.
I suppose if each video's metadata causes a redis lookup and there are 300 videos displayed per page that would do it, but you'd think you could batch those lookups. It seems a fairly inefficient.
Either that or they have some background jobs causing redis lookups that aren't a result of page views.