Some services dipped a little because of Spring Break, but Web use
continued to grow - no doubt spurred by the Kentucky Kernel online
edition.
 
Statistics from information services for March 1995:
 
World-Wide Web Server (www.uky.edu):
 438,207 total transactions, +62%
   9,958 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu) +70%
 216,687 UK campus network workstations, +67%
 211,562 from the Internet, +57%
 
Qi/Ph Directory (ukcc.uky.edu):
 105,391 total transactions, -11%
  52,762 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu), -12%
  21,504 UK campus network workstations, +4%
  31,125 from the Internet, -17%
 
Gopher Server (gopher.uky.edu):
 162,835 total transactions, -5%
  39,723 from CMS users (ukcc.uky.edu), -2%
  37,926 UK campus network workstations, -9%
  85,186 from the Internet, -4%
 
View (ukcc.uky.edu only):
 115,709 total transactions, -4%
   7,316 from anonymous View ids, -1%
 
The servers are used 24 hours each day from all over the world, but
most use is from 8:00 am until 8:00 pm, with a concentration from 1:00
pm until 5:00 pm Eastern Time.
 
 
The WWW Hit Parade
 
These were the most popular items on the Web server.  Web client access
to the Gopher server is counted below with the other Gopher counts.
 
                               Month  Daily
                               Total   Avg.
   1. ArtSource               27,701   894
   2. Kernel                  13,990   451
   3. Computing Labs          12,096   390
   4. Kentucky Atlas           7,085   229
   5. Campus Guide             6,552   211
   6. Kentucky Net Guide       5,020   162
   7. A&S                      4,967   160
   8. Subject Guide to Web     4,482   145
   9. Weather                  4,454   144
  10. Medical Center           4,097   132
  11. Whois/Ph Directory       2,753    89
  12. Medicine                 1,689    54
  13. Computing Center         1,353    44
  14. Beowulf                  1,204    39
  15. Classics                 1,164    38
  16. MCFACTS Center           1,139    37
  17. Libraries                  895    29
  18. B&E                        595    19
  19. Regulations                553    18
  20. Human Env Sci              193     6
 
 
The Gopher Hit Parade
 
These were the most used items on the Gopher and View services.  The
View estimates are based on the total number of View and Gopher
service accesses.  For individual View items the actual counts may be
much higher or lower.  The figures are total transactions with a daily
average.
                                    Approx.           Avg.
                            Gopher   View     Total   Daily
   1. Classes&Registrar      6,918   4,916   11,834   388.8
   2. Netnews                3,699   2,629    6,328   207.9
   3. Campus Directory*      3,597   2,556    6,153   202.2
   4. Jobs                   3,188   2,265    5,453   179.2
   5. Navigate               3,057   2,172    5,229   171.8
   6. Library                2,729   1,939    4,668   153.4
   7. Grants                 1,693   1,203    2,896    95.1
   8. Announcements          1,568   1,114    2,682    88.1
   9. Community College      1,063     755    1,818    59.7
  10. Daily Digest             962     684    1,646    54.1
  11. Kentucky Geo Survey      879     625    1,504    49.4
  12. Manuals                  759     539    1,298    42.7
  13. Computing                671     477    1,148    37.7
  14. Lexington Campus Sec     322     229      551    18.1
  15. HRS                      281     200      481    15.8
  16. Athletics                193     137      330    10.8
  17. Honors                   167     119      286     9.4
  18. Census                   131      93      224     7.4
  19. A&S                      127      90      217     7.1
  20. Faculty Club             107      76      183     6.0
 
* These campus directory accesses do not count access through the
  Ph server.  The activity of the WHOIS directory server isn't
  counted.
 
 
Notes
 
The services covered here are the World-Wide Web, Gopher, Qi/Ph
Directory, and CMS View.  CMS View is available only to CMS users -
either using their own userid or by logging on to one of the anonymous
View userids.  The other services are available to workstations with
campus ethernet access or terminals on multi-user systems with
appropriate software.  Most of these services are available world-wide
over the Internet, although some data is restricted to UK users.
 
Web clients (like Mosaic and Netscape) can use all of these services,
Gopher clients can use all but the Web services, and Ph and Eudora
clients can use Qi/Ph services. (We distribute versions of most of
these for Macintosh, Windows, and some Unix platforms.) Tracking Web
client use is the most complex because of the number of protocols they
support.  A document on the Web server can refer the client to another
Web document, a Gopher item, or Qi/Ph search without the client user's
awareness.
 
The transaction counts are counts of Gopher and View menu picks - when
someone picks an item from a View or Gopher menu that counts as one
transaction.  A transaction could lead to a document, a search, or
another menu.  Web transactions are for documents and searches.  What
the Web user sees as a single page might involve multiple server
accesses.  Qi/Ph transactions are searches and requests for additional
information.
 
The primary campus Gopher and Qi/Ph servers are running on an IBM 3090
(gopher.uky.edu or ukcc.uky.edu) under VM/ESA.  The primary Web server
is running on an HP 9000/800 G30 (www.uky.edu) under Unix.  Additional
Web service is provided by the IBM 3090 VM/ESA system and the Convex
Metasystem (convex.cc.uky.edu).