Average Flickr uploads in the last minute …

March 5, 2010 on 2:52 pm | Tags: , , , | In General | 1 Comment

I grabbed the number of photos uploaded in the last minute every 5 minutes from February 25th 2010, 1 pm to March 5th 2010, 2.30 pm (CET). This resulted in a number of 1,703 samples. This does not sum up to the actual time because timeouts and network problems occurred in between. Nevertheless I found:

  • Average uploads per minute: 4,602
  • Sample minimum and maximum: 1,852 and 8,849

This is interesting as many research papers (including some of my own) talk about upload rates of 6,000-8,000 photos per minute, which definitely does not reflect the average value. This might be a good reminder that systems actually working with people change and that we have to take a look at the number periodically.

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