What were you taking to be the meaning of Internet Connection Record when you did this calculation? Every TCP connection? Or only each TCP to a different site (which would still include a bunch of different ICRs per page, especially thanks to advertising, but I'm surprised if it is as many as you say).
That was each http connection, so N requests creates N records in my log but uses M tcp connections with M < N. I did it browser side so I'd see all of them. At the network layer you might see just one connection with many of the requests using the same connection, but I think this all gets very hard once you have ten sites sharing the same IP - which if you've seen our IPv6 only hosting presentation - is likely to get more common for v4 only subscribers. Either way, browsers use multiple tcp connections for performance so you'll definitely see more than one per host. Checking now, a single page request from the Telegraph uses 53 different domains - so that might be a more appropriate lower bound with 100 probably a better guess. Hope this helps. Pete -- Pete Stevens p...@ex-parrot.com http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/ The last time humans crossed space to a destination was the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. In the 32 years since, no man has seen, with his own eyes, Earth as that beautiful, solitary blue sphere, and - reality check - no woman has ever seen it at all. -- James Cameron
