trace.moe 2022 Project Updates

December 28, 2022 · View on GitHub

trace.moe 2022 Project Updates

by @soruly

trace.moe 2022 Project Updates

by @soruly
by 溯咲サカキ

What is trace.moe

trace.moe is a Anime Scene Search Engine

Why trace.moe doesn't give
the right result

1. it's not an anime screenshot

2. the anime/episode has
not yet been indexed

Database update frequency

Typeupdatesindex delay
TV anime*auto0-30 mins
OVA/ONA/Specials/Moviemanual1-2 weeks
old anime before 2000manualTBD

* exclude pre-air episodes and PV

3. screenshot is heavily modified

trace.moe 2022 Project Updates

by 溯咲サカキ

Stats

  • 13k Web Extension users (10k Chrome, 1k Firefox, 1k Edge, 1k Edge)
  • 600k monthly unique visitors, 25k daily (Cloudflare)
  • 9.5 million search served in 2022 (~25k search/day)
  • 5918 anime series
  • 32800 hours, 24TB video
  • 2.86 billion frames analyzed, indexed 810 million (164GB)

https://trace.moe/about

Updates Summary of 2022

  • 100% Moved to cloud
  • traffic and accuracy stats
  • Progressive Web App
  • lookup database index by anilist ID
  • google analytics removed

2022 Project Costs (USD)

ItemAnnuallyper month
Hetzner Dedicated Server-$2134.8-$177.9
Cloudflare-$240.0-$20.0
UptimeRobot-$63.0-$5.3
Gandi Domain and Mail server-$23.1-$1.9
Patreon+$1252.3+$104.4
GitHub Sponsor+$521.9+$43.5
(net balance)-$686.7-$57.2

Previously Planned Works

  • Migrate to cloud ✅
  • New server ✅
  • Web Extension Manifest V3 officially postponed 🥴
  • Index Youtube channels automatically (probably another project)

Planned Works

  • multi-language UI
  • Detect and store scene boundaries up-front (for speed/cache)
  • Cross reference results with JCD
  • Match video to video

Thank you for watching!

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