[Imc-aotearoa-tech] Visitor traffic statistics

[finn c.]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:28:50AM -0400, Russell Lee wrote:
> Hmm, am I looking at these stats right? If so, I'd like to
> publicise this, or at least put it on the Aotearoa email
> list at least and tell my friends.
> 
> http://cat.org.au/cat/analog/aotearoa-2002-08.html
> 
> Analysed requests from Fri-01-Aug-2003 00:00 to
> Sun-31-Aug-2003   06:53 (30.29 days). 
> General Summary
> (Figures in parentheses refer to the 7-day period ending  
> 31-Aug-2003 06:54). 
> Successful requests: 280,365 (69,924)
> Average successful requests per day: 9,256 (9,989)
> Successful requests for pages: 18,431 (5,525) 
> Distinct files requested: 9,029 (5,172) 
> Distinct hosts served: 52,272 (7,829) 
> Data transferred: 2.566 gigabytes (858.583 megabytes) 
> Average data transferred per day: 86.765 megabytes (122.654 megabytes)
> 
> Does that mean 52,272 different computers accessed the
> indymedia site during August?

Yep kinda. There are two things which skew the results - spiders and
other autonomous web creatures which traverse our site. Take a look at
browser summary and operating system report for some idea of how much
traffic they are generating. There'll be lots of em hiding in 'not
listed' too.

On the plus side, Network Address Translation [NAT] means that there'll
be lots of people looking at the site on internal networks like Uni's,
companies, SIS offices etc, and they'll all appear as one host. This is
because these places will be using routers, firewalls and/or adsl modems
which will allow 100's of computers run of the same connection.

So basically I think that with everything evened out, the stats are
probably right, but take it as an indication rather than an absolute.

> And should we be worrying about our next CAT bill if we are
> transferring 2.5 gigabytes a month?!

Nope, thats a good amount. We were pushing 11gb/month at one point when
someone uploaded some stupid internet fad video and google found it. I
need to email the general list about another donation, cat is really
broke right now.

The traffic upsurge does seem huge, and I was gonna say "it's all good
but we are pushing about the same as any other large imc" but well,
we're not - we're doing 10 times the amount of Brisbane [not that it's a
competiton, but they are my only yardstick]. Yay.

In internet terms it's not huge, so don't bother writing a feature about
how cool we are :) , but let everyone know.

Seeya,
finn