DemConvention.com homepage screenshotInterest in U.S. Politics set a new traffic record for a SilverStripe-powered website last week. DemConvention.com, the official website for the four day U.S. Democratic Party's National Convention, set some impressive stats:

  • 3.2 million visits
  • 2.6 billion hits
  • 350,000 hours of streaming video served

The website runs on a number of Apache/Redhat Linux webservers. While PHP5 and MySQL underpin any SilverStripe website, the scalability is due primarily to the static file caching code we blogged about recently.

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Given 'hits' is a loaded word which doesn't actually mean much in terms of content viewed can you share what the page views and unique browsers were? Any other standard web stats that you can share?

2 Oct 2008 by: Glen Barnes

Also to center footer in IE6 try adding
#footer { text-align: center; }

14 Sep 2008 by: Hubba

The site looks great except for nav in IE6
might try adding these styles...
* html #menu1 { top: -5px }
#Menu1 ul.sub1 li a: hover { display: block; width: 100%; }

14 Sep 2008 by: Hubba

"DemConvention.com, received more than 3.2 million visits totaling more than 2.6 billion hits during Convention week" http://www.demconvention.com/press-releases/

14 Sep 2008 by: Inger

this cms is amazing one

7 Sep 2008 by: Manoj

Wow, go LAMP/SilverStripe!

Interesting to compare to trademe, which at www.trademe.co.nz/Community/SiteStats.aspx states:

Number of people who visit each month: 4,269,088

Average number of people who visit each day: 471,129

6 Sep 2008 by: kiwi