When your website first reaches a million visitors, it’s a great milestone. However, one billion views per day can only be attained by the selected few, and YouTube is now one of them.
According to the official blog, YouTube is serving “well over a billion views a dayâ€. That’s at least 11,574 views per second, 694,444 views per minute, and 41,666,667 views per hour. Imagine the web server farm that can withstand that much traffic, and then remember that YouTube is just one of Google’s many properties.
As we wrote earlier this week, YouTube still may not be making enough money to justify the 1.65 billion dollars Google has paid for it, but it definitely makes it up when it comes to visitors.
To celebrate the occasion, YouTube has a special logo today, accompanied with the text “1 billion views per dayâ€. Yes, they’re bragging, but one has to admit they have a lot to brag about.
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