Gravatars Everywhere
You may remember a little while back we bought Gravatar. We now have the infrastructure to a point where we feel comfortable sending a lot more traffic to it.
So we’ve enabled Gravatar support for all of WordPress.com.
What’s that mean? When you have a WordPress.com account you can have an avatar by your comment, but now if someone isn’t logged in or registered but they have a Gravatar attached to their email account that will show up by their comments too. You may see a few new faces around. 
Gravatars help build a sense of community around your readers, and keep people coming back to the comments.
Since doing this the requests to Gravatar have tripled to about 2,200 requests per second on average, with peaks to 3,000 per second.
Since there are 86,400 seconds in a day that takes us to 190,080,000 Gravatar requests per day, on average.
Dec 10th at 7:26 pm
thanks, love more stuff
Dec 11th at 3:25 am
I like it, Matt. Good work!
Dec 11th at 7:47 am
cool!
Dec 11th at 8:46 am
salamat! =)
Dec 11th at 12:54 pm
Thats nice!
Dec 11th at 1:28 pm
Oh this is really great news!
Dec 11th at 9:36 pm
Cool, now some support for bbPress too and I’ll be happy as well
Dec 11th at 10:19 pm
I like it!
Dec 12th at 3:48 pm
Wow good news for us! and a good value addition
Dec 12th at 6:32 pm
It’s really user friendly – now if I only had a cool picture to use!
Dec 12th at 8:58 pm
Gravatar!
Dec 13th at 12:07 am
Dec 13th at 12:36 am
cool! i like it!
Dec 13th at 2:22 am
it gets better & better, WP is The BEST
All the best from Croatia
Dec 13th at 3:38 am
mike m. i think you are really cute.
Dec 13th at 4:26 pm
Simply Wicked!! What next Matt??
Dec 14th at 2:00 am
Just wanted to see how my avatar looks
Dec 15th at 11:30 am
Gravatar, is the last airbender?
Dec 15th at 4:51 pm
Merci, de Quebec, Canada !
Dec 15th at 7:51 pm
Fantastic!
Dec 15th at 8:37 pm
Very nice.
Dec 15th at 9:58 pm
I use Gravatar, and I like it so much.
Dec 15th at 11:52 pm
That’s cool.
Dec 16th at 4:16 am
… great job, Matt … thanks a trillion
Dec 16th at 5:45 am
Very interesting
thanks
Dec 16th at 10:21 pm
really?!
Dec 17th at 12:59 pm
Excelente!!!!
Dec 17th at 7:40 pm
thanks!
Dec 17th at 10:35 pm
Wow! I am a total newby to blogging, but so far its been fun! Love all the cool features!
Dec 18th at 9:30 am
great job ….
Dec 18th at 4:40 pm
great work i am loving u guys and gals at wordpress team who work so hard to make this beautiful.my new love lover is wordpress.
Dec 18th at 8:30 pm
sweet
Dec 19th at 6:18 am
Nice!!
Dec 19th at 8:34 am
cool …
Dec 19th at 10:25 am
they say picture worth thousand words!
Dec 19th at 11:05 am
Cool. It would have been great, however, if the gravatar would also be displayed for the email address used in my WordPress.com account so that I do not need to add a separate avatar to WordPress.com
Dec 19th at 3:00 pm
It would be interesting to devise a way for the access requests to be more efficient. Like an optional cache built into the local WP blog, so it doesn’t have to query the DB from far away.
Dec 19th at 10:28 pm
GOOD GOING!
Dec 19th at 10:31 pm
very nice!!!!
Dec 20th at 6:41 am
this is awesome
Dec 20th at 1:26 pm
awsome!