[ga] Brief notes on NC Active List and Usage Stats

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STATISTICS

The following is a summary of Active lists showing the amount of mails sent to each list from the date of opening to date. Cf.  http://www.dnso.org/dnso/ncarchives.html

 

Two categories are mentioned:

1)     Names Council Task Forces and Committees 

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-idn/Arc00/

NC IDN International Domain Names (open 14 July 2001) to date, 8 October 2001 there are 12 mails.

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-org/Arc00/ NC Dot Org (open 04 August 2001) to date, 4 October 2001 there are 121 mails.

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-udrp/Arc00/ NC UDRP Review and Evaluation (open 04 August 2001)  to date, 4 October there are 59 mails.

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-review/Arc01/ NC Review (open 03 August 2001) to date, 9 October 2001 there are 20 mails.

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-whois/Arc00/NC WhoIs (open 10 July 2001) to date, 8 October 2001 there are 47 mails.

2)     Names Council Budget and Intake Permanent Committees

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-budget/Arc00/ DNSO Secretariat Budget committee (open July 2000) to date, 8 October there are 517 mails.

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/nc-intake/Arc00/ NC Intake Committee (open July 2000) to date, 1 October 314 mails.

 

A brief explanatory report follows on the Usage Statistics as have been posted on the website.

The Stats are compiled by Webalizer Version 2.01 for the period May 1999 to date.

Usage Statistics for www.dnso.org

 

In summary:

     

A KByte (KB) indicates volume in general.  It shows the amount of data transferred between the server and the remote machine, based on the data found in the server log. From the beginning of the DNSO web site in May 1999 there has been a steady increase in volume with peak periods October and December in 99 , July August and November in 2000 and very steep rises in July August and September 2001 the latter indicating a problem that can be attributed to errors caused by the virus that contaminated a lot of machines this year.  Being autoreproductive it saturated the network.

 

Hits represent the total number of requests made to the server during the
given time period (month, day, hour etc..). There has been about a 7 fold increase in hits since the beginning period in May 1999.

Files represent the total number of hits (requests) that actually
resulted in something being sent back to the user. Not all hits will send
data, such as 404-Not Found requests and requests for pages that are already in the
browsers cache.  The number of files is roughly half of the number of hits with a steady increase from the beginning.  However July August and Sept 2001 indicate that there was a problem.

 By looking at the difference between hits and files, you can get a
rough indication of repeat visitors, as the greater the difference between the two, the more people are requesting pages they already have cached (have
viewed already).

Sites is the number of unique IP addresses/hostnames that made requests
to the server. Care should be taken when using this metric for anything
other than that. Many users can appear to come from a single site, and
they can also appear to come from many ip addresses so it should be used
simply as a rough guage as to the number of visitors to your server.

Visits occur when some remote site makes a request for a page on your
server for the first time. As long as the same site keeps making requests
within a given timeout period, they will all be considered part of the
same Visit. If the site makes a request to your server, and the length of time
since the last request is greater than the specified timeout period
(default is 30 minutes), a new Visit is started and counted, and the sequence
repeats. Since only pages will trigger a visit, remote sites that link
to graphic and other non- page URLs will not be counted in the visit totals,
reducing the number of false visits. In 2001 the number of visits rises steadily with peaks in July August most probably related to the virus, while during 2000 there seem to be peak periods in July, October, November and December and in 1999 in October and December.

Pages are those URLs that would be considered the actual page being
requested, and not all of the individual items that make it up (such as
 graphics and audio clips). Some people call this metric page or page impressions. Throughout the 3 year span nearly double the amount of pages compared to files have been consulted with a constant increase from the beginning. 

Further information can be found at this url.

http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/webalizer_help.html

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