Re: WWW "versus" gopher

Paul Phillips (paulp@is.internic.net)
Fri, 11 Mar 1994 10:55:26 --100

Maybe we should all read "Lying with Statistics." :-) Wouldn't one
expect as many gopher servers to run on a non-standard port as http
servers? Inflating the WWW numbers to account for this while leaving the
gopher numbers untouched generates numbers for the sake of numbers. The
Web is growing fine on its own...

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On Fri, 11 Mar 1994, Paul S. Wain wrote:

> Quick question,
>
> @ Service Name Port Rank Packet Count % Pkts Rank Byte Count % Byts
> @ ============ ==== ==== ============ ====== ==== ============= ======
> @ gopher 70 9 1472386850 2.455 6 396066059800 3.470
> @ www 80 11 1105399700 1.843 7 347503518500 3.044
>
> Looking at these stats, I would think that the values could be a bit low
> for the WWW packet count. The reason I ask is, what about all those
> servers out here that exist on other ports, such as, say:
>
> 801, 8000, 8080, 4040, etc etc.
>
> Could some rough factoring be added in for them? I just ask since even
> it 90% of people used port 80 and only 10% dont (looking at my hotlist
> most appear to be on another port :) then that would give new www
> figures of:
>
> @ Service Name Port Rank Packet Count % Pkts Rank Byte Count % Byts
> @ ============ ==== ==== ============ ====== ==== ============= ======
> @ gopher 70 9 1472386850 2.455 6 396066059800 3.470
> >> www 80etc xx 1215939670 x.xxx x 382253870355 x.xxx
>
> Which although it keeps the WWW is "7"th place, means that by now it has
> already overtaken gopher....
>
> Just a quick hack out at some maths there. Let me know what you all
> think :)
>
> Paul
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