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.

Go to sign up for get one: http://site.gravatar.com/signup

After fill your e-mail address. Check your mail to read the comfirmation and then click Activate code.

Your account has been activated! type your password.

You done, and then have no an image. Please add a new one!

Browse for a picture from you Hard drive or get a link on the web. Below you select a pic from your hard drive.

Now you need to crop it.

You’re done.

When you want to comment in other blog by use it without login to WordPress admin  or you don’t have wordpress account. Just fill yourname with a require e-mail you signed up with Gravatar above. That’s it. See the example below:

result: