@FIRST_LIGHT

I just noticed that Sys-con is running an article with the provocative headline "Ulitzer Will Give Drupal CMS Its Biggest Scalability Challenge Yet". In it they say the following:

Ulitzer, Inc., which initially made the headlines with its “job descriptions from the future,” announced today that it will launch its Ulitzer “beta” site on July 4, 2008, with 5,500 authors and 600,000 original article

Bert Boerland instantly picked up the story wondering if perhaps this will be the biggest Drupal site ever in terms of content node count. In the comments, we see an interesting list of sites claiming node counts that approach what Urlitzer is projecting, listed in order of number of nodes.

1. Anonymous Defense Contractor - 10 million+ (unconfirmed)
2. Linux Journal - 1million (unconfirmed - just looking at URLs)
3. My-ANI.com - 560K
4. Lifetime Television - 454K
5. SavannahNOW.com - 427K
6. Daughtry's website - 270K
7. Sony Musicbox - 246K
8. Line Rider - 207K heading for 500K in two months

Are there others out there that belong in this list? It would be great to gather more information on the profiles of Drupal sites in production. How does this compare to other sites out there? How many pieces of content do sites like CNET have?

I should clearly state that all of the above numbers are just node counts, and have nothing to do with traffic, so they are only a partial indicator of scalability. But they do show one dimension, and that's useful. And in many cases nodes are created by human activity, so there may be a correllation with traffic load for some sites.