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Amazon is Cat-tacular!

I found a little funny easter-egg on the amazon website that I've never noticed before. If you go to www.amazon.com
and view the page source. If you don't know how to do that, this post probably won't make much sense to you or be funny in any way, shape, or form.

One the very last line of the source is a comment: <!-- MEOW -->

What the heck? It made me laugh that the amazon developers would put something like that in the source code.

How much does this little gem cost amazon to serve to all their customers? It is, after all one of the highest trafficked sites on the internet. Adding that to every page has to have some sort of effect.

Total worldwide internet users: 1,407,724,920
Percent of global Internet users who visit this site: 2.13%
Unique pages viewed per user per day for this site: 6.64

So that put the estimated total users for amazon.com at 29,984,541 unique people and the total pageviews per day at 199,097,351.

The data for "<!-- MEOW -->" is 14 bytes including the newline character before it so this addition to the source costs amazon approximately 2.6 gigabytes of bandwidth every day. Amazing!

Let my know if my calculations are off.