Bits And Bytes
It’s been awhile since I’ve written a statistics update about iApp-a-Day. Time to change that!
The first bandwidth intensive app was Burp. On the day it was released, my server transfered 24,334,858KB of data - that’s over 23GB! The day before Burp was released, there was a teeny 2,510,021KB of data transfered. I remember my hosting provider being more than a little surprised at the spike that day… 
Everyday since Burp, the server has transfered around 10GB or more per day - until Quest was released on the 10th. Traffic surged to again to around 24GB that day and then dropped off to a similar 10GB per day average (or so). There were little spikes here and there with the release of other social apps, but none made near so great an impact until Wallpaper.
Yesterday the traffic exploded off the chart with a whopping 68,449,745KB in one day. That’s about 65GB, folks! Almost 3 times more intense than the day Quest was released! The scary thing is that today is only half over… and so far today the server has transfered more than 52,827,970KB or 50GB. This is the first time that traffic has gone up the day after a new social app was released!
The kicker is that all of this traffic is being served up by a single, old 2.8Ghz P4 server that also runs this blog and a ton of other little sites. So it’s straining a bit serving up the 41,205,825 hits I’ve had this month so far…
As for app downloads, here’s the list:
| Magic-1.0.zip | 44,737 |
| Graffiti-1.0.zip | 33,506 |
| Fall-1.0.zip | 32,485 |
| Pumpkin-1.0.zip | 32,371 |
| Melt-1.0.zip | 31,240 |
| Hockey-1.1.zip | 28,899 |
| World-1.2.zip | 25,455 |
| Pumped-1.0.zip | 24,409 |
| Poke-1.0.zip | 23,866 |
| Uncle-1.0.zip | 22,921 |
| Level-1.0.zip | 22,065 |
| Whisper-1.3.zip | 22,050 |
| Scribble-1.0.zip | 21,912 |
| Rose-1.0.zip | 21,860 |
| Elmo-1.0.zip | 21,774 |
| Piano-1.4.zip | 18,684 |
| Panic-1.0.zip | 17,927 |
| Quest-1.0.zip | 16,948 |
| Burp-1.2.1.zip | 15,428 |
| Sleigh-1.0.zip | 14,950 |
| Mixup-1.0.zip | 14,635 |
| Collage-1.3.zip | 14,576 |
| Interval-1.0.zip | 14,537 |
| Quest-1.1.zip | 13,267 |
| Songbird-1.1.zip | 12,098 |
| Leftover-1.0.zip | 11,766 |
| Burp-1.3.zip | 10,628 |
| Midterm-1.0.zip | 10,359 |
| Wallpaper-1.0.zip | 9,915 |
| Bard-1.1.zip | 9,616 |
| Piano-1.0.zip | 8,229 |
| Wallpaper-1.6.zip | 7,701 |
| Piano-1.3.zip | 5,310 |
| Burp-1.1.zip | 4,443 |
| Burp-1.2.zip | 3,560 |
| Hum-1.3.zip | 2,471 |
| Whisper-1.1.zip | 2,318 |
| Collage-1.0.zip | 2,012 |
| Songbird-1.0.zip | 1,118 |
| World-1.0.zip | 956 |
| Wallpaper-1.5.zip | 827 |
| Wallpaper-1.1.zip | 597 |
| Piano-1.1.zip | 457 |
| Bard-1.0.zip | 443 |
| Whisper-1.2.zip | 390 |
| Collage-1.1.zip | 319 |
| Whisper-1.0.zip | 303 |
| Collage-1.2.zip | 277 |
| Wallpaper-1.4.zip | 134 |
| World-1.1.zip | 128 |
| Piano-1.2.zip | 114 |
| Wallpaper-1.2.zip | 18 |
| Wallpaper-1.3.zip | 15 |
November 28th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Wallpaper-1.3.zip: 13 ??? Only 13 People downloaded Wallpaper-1.3.zip???
November 28th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
No.. 15 did.
There were several Wallpaper versions that were released within minutes of each other as I tried to figure out why exactly it was suddenly crashing on the iPod Touch. Things finally settled down with 1.6 
November 28th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
sorry about the bandwidth, it’s my fault, i’m sitting here at work with wallpaper running all day hoping It doesn’t show any penises. GREAT app =)
November 28th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I think I had wallpaper 1.3. I feel special now.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:43 am
I love wallpaper. would love it more if it starts to stream everyone’s camera roll and iphoto photos :p
November 29th, 2007 at 8:13 am
where is the request section for the final app of the month!
if you are looking for idea’s I would love the exact recreation of the TED2006 Feb Demo of the MultiTouch user interface that apple bought rights to. the Volcano Lavalamp goo looking thing that you can touch with your fingers, the longer you hold the hotter it gets, and then you can move and sculpt it around like a metaball or “lava” gooish effect. I have included the video of the multitouch so you can see the apps. maybe even a “photo roll viewer” that shows all the photos on a table instead of just 1 photo, and you can move and manipulate all the photos… just watch the demo if you havent seen it, and choose any of those demo apps and see if its possible! even if its not in 1 day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKqyn-gUbY