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