SO gets well over 10k completely new posts (Q&As) on a typical day.
A few thousand older posts are edited a day.
Throwing comments into the mix more than doubles the number of "new things", and of course every question, answer, comment, or edit is displayed on multiple pages (generally, on the owning user's page).
tl;dr - there's a lot more page churn than you might expect.
A few thousand older posts are edited a day.
Throwing comments into the mix more than doubles the number of "new things", and of course every question, answer, comment, or edit is displayed on multiple pages (generally, on the owning user's page).
tl;dr - there's a lot more page churn than you might expect.