A few statistics ... (fwd)

["Carl Malamud [IMS]" <carl@radio.com>]

According to Carl Malamud [IMS]:
> From carl Thu Jan 18 16:40:23 1996
> From: "Carl Malamud [IMS]" <carl@radio.com>
> Message-Id: <199601182137.QAA06876@trystero.radio.com>
> Subject: A few statistics ...
> To: hype@park.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:37:07 -0500 (EST)
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> Hi -
> 
> I had to run some stats off for Time.  Thought you might be interested in the 
> data from three points in time.
> 
> We've made several "what's cool" lists on the Internet and both Magellan and 
> the original "Cool Site of the Day" have featured us.  The 1/17 data is when 
> Cool Site had us up.  It does not appear that this was a momentary spike as 
> today's data is holding up quite well.  
> 
> The basic summary is that we appear to be servicing a user population of 10-20 
> thousand people from 65 countries per day.  We'll have a few more spikes as the 
> new central park sites go up.  It is not unreasonable to predict that we'll grow 
> to a number like 30-50K people per day with possible spikes on the very big events 
> (e.g., debates).  That is about 15 million visitors to the fair (obviously not all 
> unique).  Just ballpark numbers, so don't put too much faith in them, but you are 
> free to use these numbers.  If you talk to the press, I'd sure appreciate it if 
> you would point them back to me so we can get them updated statistics.
> 
>                        DATE
>                   1/4          1/16          1/17
> # of Requests   77,085       103,976       313,181
> # of Files      38,628        52,404       157,088
> # of countries      34            61            64
> # of hosts         893         2,047         5,121
> /index.html      1,700         1,800        12,403
> hits/hour          2-4           3-6          8-20
> 
> Notes: 
> 
> Number of Requests: otherwise known as "hits," though please be careful
> not to just look at hits.  They are not a very good indication of the
> traffic profile on a system.
> 
> Number of files: number of files transmitted that day by park.org.
> 
> Number of countries: number of unique countries that visited.
> 
> Number of hosts: the number of unique computers that visited.  Note that
> this includes hosts like aol.com (which had 3750 requests come in on 1/17, 
> even with their caching server) and compuserve.com (2315 requests), plus
> a large number number (24.05%) of requests that we were unable to resolve
> the computer address, but were able to send the data off.
>  
> Number of access to index.html: This gives some indication of new users.
> Many people put in bookmarks, especially on sites such as this.  For example,
> many people now go straight to Pavilions or to the search engine.
> 
> Hits/Hour: These numbers are in thousands.  Note that our statistics don't
> vary widely over time because of the international audience we are serving.
> 
> 
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