I have 200k visitors per month generating 8m page views and about 50m hits on the servers (with CDNs taking another few hundred million hits).
These all peak during the UK weekdays and wind down at nights and weekends.
Divisions over time aren't going to work, but neither is translating visitors into requests, especially as it's only the page views that have a beyond trivial computation cost.
I have 200k visitors per month generating 8m page views and about 50m hits on the servers (with CDNs taking another few hundred million hits).
These all peak during the UK weekdays and wind down at nights and weekends.
Divisions over time aren't going to work, but neither is translating visitors into requests, especially as it's only the page views that have a beyond trivial computation cost.