The yoctomole is a wonderful unit, for example when you want just slightly more than half a cup of coffee! But the mole as a "counting unit" is different from

The yoctomole is a wonderful unit, for example when you want just slightly more than half a cup of coffee! But the mole as a "counting unit" is different from OP's idea of assigning units to things like network requests. The mole is just a shorthand for a number, like a dozen or a score. We don't have different kind of "moles" for, say, carbon atoms and water molecules. Or coffee.