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Web Access Statistics
An analysis of the departmental
web-server access logs from September 2002 until August 2003
(totalling 10,654,881 accesses) reveals popular operating systems and
browsers used to access this site.
Browser |
Accesses |
MSIE |
6,145,853 |
Mozilla |
3,039,565 |
Googlebot |
156,929 |
Opera |
70,410 |
Scooter |
41,799 |
Konqueror |
20,543 |
Firebird |
7,390 |
|
![pie chart- browser accesses](Browseraccess.gif) |
Table & Chart 1:
Access by browser type |
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (versions 4, 5 and 60) has the greatest share of accesses at
65%. Netscape (Mozilla 4, 5, and 7) is the next most popular browser
with 32% and is the standard browser in the E.E. Department. Google's
indexer (Googlebot) has the third highest access rate followed by the
Opera browser, the AltaVista
indexer (Scooter), Konqueror
(KDE Desktop) and Firebird, the
recent Mozilla browser spin-off.
OS |
Accesses |
Windows
98 |
2,117,395
|
SunOS |
1,779,734 |
Linux |
588,255 |
Windows XP |
344,699 |
Windows NT 4 |
212,041 |
Macintosh |
59,428 |
BSD |
8,296 |
|
![pie chart- os accesses](OSaccess.gif) |
Table & Chart 2:
Access by operating system |
Since its release, nearly two years ago in October 2001, Windows XP
(7% of accesses) trails Windows 98 (41% of the share)
considerably. A high percentage of SunOS (aka Solaris, 35%) and
GNU/Linux (12%) accesses are from workstations within the
department.
Excluding "abnormalities" local to this server, these statistics tend
to agree with the Google
Zeitgeist Microsoft's browser and operating system dominate the
web on the client side1 and Windows
98 is still the most popular of Microsoft's OS offering2.
![hourly stats](tn-webstats.gif) |
Graph
1: Hourly accesses from Feb. 2003 to Aug. 2003
|
Graph 1, above, charts web pages every hour since February 2003. The
number of accesses drop by about 50% during the summer months and
begin to increase again as the school year begins. The large spikes
are from bots (Google, Altavista) periodically indexing the entire
website; beginning in June, Google began indexing more aggressively.
Missing data for August 19 and 20 was due to the power blackout.
0 MSIE 6 has 3,686,966 accesses;
60% of all MSIE (4, 5, and 6) accesses.
1 On the server side however, it's
a
different story. The free-software Apache web-server (typically run on
GNU/Linux, BSD and Solaris servers) leads with 64% of the share,
followed by Microsoft's IIS server with 24%.
2 The large percentage of Windows 98
accesses are due to the popularity of one
particular webpage hosted on this server.
Notes:
- Browser and OS accesses were counted using: zcat
access.log*.gz |grep XYZ|wc -l, where XYZ is the
text that appears in the "OS" and "Browser" column of each
table. "Mozilla" counts were gathered using: zcat access.log*.gz
|grep Mozilla/|grep -v compatible|wc -l because MSIE reports
itself as "Mozilla compatible". Total accesses were gathered using:
zcat access.log*.gz |wc -l.
- 3D pie-charts were plotted using StarChart, the spreadsheet that
is part of the
StarOffice suite from
Sun Microsystems.
- The graph of web accesses was plotted using gnuplot,
via an automated script that runs on the web-server every hour. This
mechanism was installed to monitor and detect traffic anomalies
(e.g. network attacks).
Last modified:
Tuesday, 14-Jul-2015 18:07:09 EDT