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August 31st, 2005
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
I do not want to talk about New Orleans, the hurricane, my poor decisions last night to help me cope with it, or the resulting nonsensical drunken blog postings & (unfortunately) e-mail messages.
Instead, let’s have some fun with the UltraCart production database cluster!
- Number of distinct items for sale by UltraCart merchants: 228,747
- Number of product image thumbnails created by UltraCart: 51,188
- Number of digital delivery files hosted by UltraCart: 13,725
- Total disk spaced used to store digital delivery files (in bytes): 9,139,303,860
- Amount of bandwidth consumed by UltraCart in August 2005 (in bytes): 635,268,521,544 (or 591.64 gigabytes)
- Average per-order total across all UltraCart merchants in August 2005: $100.04
- Highest single order total in August 2005: $27,189
- Total bandwidth used YTD 2005 by UltraCart (in bytes): 5,187,348,672,758 (or for those loving nice round numbers, 4.72 terabytes)
If you have any other ideas regarding interesting statistics, let me know. Please understand that there are some metrics I can’t give out for business reasons. In fact, I’ll probably get in trouble for this. 
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