Altervista.org - Can you imagine their visitors ?

Altervista.org has 1,216,529 daily visitors. Can you imagine how big the country was if these 1,216,529 visitors would have been the population of a country?

Altervista.org would be on of the bigger countries of the world. We've created a table below, so you can see it in the pick-order. You'll find the number of humans living in that country and also find the percentage of the world population living in that country. As you can see Altervista.org would be bigger then the country Swaziland!

Rank Country Population % of world population
153 Mauritius 1,280,925 0.019%
154 www.altervista.org 1,216,529 -
155 Swaziland 1,202,000 0.017%
156 East Timor 1,171,000 0.017%
157 Djibouti 879,000 0.013%
158 Fiji 854,000 0.012%

Can these Altervista.org people fill a stadium like the Amsterdam Arena?

The stadium below has place for 52,960 people. It's openend in 1996. The arena has a roof that can be pushed close in bad weather. This roof consists of two parts. One such section is 118 meters long and 40 meters wide, and weighs 520 tons. The roof can be opened and closed 18 minutes. To give all visitors of Altervista.org a chair in this stadium, you need 23 stadiums like this.

Their website visitors compared to the daily internet users.

From all people of the world, there are around 1,400,000,000 (1,4 billion) people surfing daily on the internet. If you compare this to the 1,216,529 visitors of Altervista.org, you'll see that 1 of the 1,151 people is visiting their site on a daily basis.

How about this site compared to other sites?

If there would be a list of top websites in the world. The site Altervista.org would be on place #545. Off course this is an estimated value. There are about 200 million websites around the world.

How many kilometers will those people reach hand in hand?

The average person in the world is about 1.7 meters (5 ft 7 in). That means that if 1,216,529 people (the Altervista.org visitors) would connect their hands and form a big line, it would be 2,068,099 meters long. A kilometer consists of 1000 meters, so it would be 2,068 kilometers long.

Below you will see an image of 4 humans connected by their hands.

How many electricity would this site use?

As we estimated the total number of visitors to 1,216,529 earlier, this mean they have around 2,433,057 pageviews per day. This correspondents to 676 per second and 40,560 requests per minute. We think their are using 10 servers to host this website. A regular server uses about 2,200 kWh of power on a yearly basis. The commercial pricing average of one kWh is $0.107. Factoring in the cooling load at 1X (2.0 PUE) puts the annual energy cost per server at ~$800. for Altervista.org this means that their total server costs per year are about $8,000. Off course, this are rough estimates. We've not even included the "Managing the server and network" time and costs.