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Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by mendicantB on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:19PM (#7628960)
It's dangerous to assume an even spread. Numbers are reported like this because the distribution of site visits is usually confidential information. From experience, I'd guess it's something like 1 million sites holding ~70% of the visitors, with the rest spread along the tail.
Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by alceufc on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:26PM (#7629008)
The distribution of links pointing to a Web site follows a power-law distribution (few sites get most of the links) [1].

It is very likely that the number of visits follow a similar power-law distribution.

[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/content/287/5461/2115.full

Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by mendicantB on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @10:50PM (#7631818)
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what I just said.
Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by kawera on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:26PM (#7629015)
Thanks. I didn't assume they were evenly spread but even if we make it 175M x 70% / 1M we still have only ~120 visitors per month.
Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by funkyy on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:47PM (#7629170)
Remember that probably majority of those sites are either dead, not public and made when some people were learning how to make sites. You can put that number probably down to 10% active/public sites. If visitor number is 175m this might be unique visitors to the platform = one visitor might visit multiple sites.
Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by kawera on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:58PM (#7629231)
Yes but in this case it would be much better to cite the number of "active sites" and not an almost meaningless 20M figure. Still, it's hard to define "active sites".
Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by funkyy on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @02:45PM (#7629538)
Then the number would be lower... Its all about marketing. "Unlimited", "hundreds of millions", "probably most of" sounds better than "5% of resources", "20 million active", "there is no data but we think a lot".
Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by mendicantB on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @10:54PM (#7631833)
This
Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by mendicantB on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @10:53PM (#7631832)
You're still assuming an even spread amongst the ones that are in that 1M. My point is it's usually hard to tell, and you should assume very few sites hold most visitors. Just keep re-applying the concept (of the 1m, 1000 account for 70% etc).