NYU WEB

NYU Web Usage Soars

Kristina Abeson

The graph at the right shows how often the server has been accessed since it was launched in August 1994. (For a larger verison of the graph, click on the image itself.) The figures do not reflect the use on other NYU servers, such as those at Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program, the Stern School of Business, the Medical Center, or the Economics Department, among others.

Whenever you point your Web browser to any address that starts with http://www.nyu.edu , our Web server records a "hit." As you navigate around www.nyu.edu , it serves other pages to you, and it records each one as another hit (but not when you return to a page in the same session, since your browser probably displays it for you from its own cache). We compile these statistics monthly on our server, but they could be generated weekly, daily, or even hourly.

While traffic has increased dramatically, there are variations in usage. For example, during the winter and summer vacations, the number of hits dips slightly.

During the summer of 1996, usage reached a plateau at about 1.7 million hits a month. Of these, 1.6 million come from within the United States, and half of those from computers on NYU-NET. The other 100,000 visits or so per month are from eighty other countries all over the world, with about 20,000 from Canada, 12,000 from the United Kingdom, and 2,000 from Mexico, as well as 196 from the Dominican Republic, six from Fiji, and one from Liechtenstein.

Posted 24 September 1996; revised 22 October 1996