Archive for the 'Web Traffic' Category
Feb
18
Exa-Flood or Drought?
February 18, 2009 | Comments Off
An Exabyte is a lot of data. (An exabyte is 1018 bytes, or one billion gigabytes.) According to MINTS, five to eight exabytes flow through the internet each month. All this data has led to predictions that the coming deluge of data from all the new video sites and other traffic congestion would flood the Internet. [...]
Jan
20
Inauguration Breaks the Internet
January 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Well not really. But the viewing of today’s wonderful, historic inauguration of President Obama put a major strain on the Internet, American cell phone networks and our firewall here at TRU. Here’s a snapshot of our firewall traffic during the speech. All the extra traffic on port 8247 was caused by staff watching the inauguration [...]
Dec
16
Errata
December 16, 2008 | Comments Off
Per Item 5 in my last post. That web visitor data from Alexa looked fishy. For a start, where was China? So I took a look at one year’s worth of log files in Google Analytics for www.tru.ca and got these countries ranked by visitor traffic: Canada United States India United Kingdom China Australia Philippines [...]
Dec
16
Did you know?
December 16, 2008 | 14 Comments
According to Alexa, the TRU website (www.tru.ca) is: The 102,598 busiest website worldwide; Is ranked 3,495 busiest website in Canada; Is the 6th busiest university website in BC (see list below); Is ranked 46th for all education websites in Canada (including sub-sites); 57% of the website traffic comes from Canada but the top 10 countries [...]