For awhile, my web space provider (for metricmethods.com) was providing the services Bill describes. I didn't have nearly such a large percentage of unknowns, but that was a couple of years ago. I did see some very broadranging country representation. The system seemed to work by extension identification, so for the US there was a breakdown by education (.edu), government (.gov), and so forth. I could even use nslookup to backtrace those and see that some of those were "web crawlers", often used by search engine databases. Now that so many different extensions have been authorized and the assignment/licensing procedure has changed a bit, it is harder to break those down I suspect.
Once I saw that my site was being visited by a large variety of interests, representing many countries, I lost interest in the periodic battles needed to make sure this hit count and analysis daemon were kept going. Jim > kilopascal wrote: > > 2003-03-05 > > I take it the "country" is taken from the URL extension. But, why are > there so many unresolved/unknowns? > > John > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Bill Potts > To: U.S. Metric Association > Sent: Wednesday, 2003-03-05 04:09 > Subject: [USMA:25029] RE: metric methods website accessed in > Finland > > John Schweisthal wrote: > > It's too bad there isn't a method (or is there?) that would > tell you from what region of the world your site is > accessed. If you really want to know if he visited your > site, you can go to http://www.eurobilltracker.com and > search for the e-mail address of and write to him and see > if he has in fact visited your site. This may help us gage > how much of an interest the world has in US metrication. > > > > The statistics program used for my site provides a breakdown > by country. Unfortunately, from last December on, that part > seems to have a problem. However, here's the November 2002 > information: > > [Usage by Country for November 2002] > > Top 29 of 29 Total Countries > > # Hits Files KBytes Country > > 1 35165 83.41% 3088584.00% 15135083.26% Unresolved/Unknown > 2 2508 5.95% 1890 5.14% 11027 6.07% US Commercial > 3 2276 5.40% 1992 5.42% 10083 5.55% Network > 4 604 1.43% 587 1.60% 2624 1.44% US Educational > 5 364 0.86% 248 0.67% 858 0.47% Germany > 6 251 0.60% 229 0.62% 874 0.48% Canada > 7 231 0.55% 204 0.55% 1073 0.59% United States > 8 166 0.39% 163 0.44% 803 0.44% Australia > 9 93 0.22% 92 0.25% 294 0.16% New Zealand (Aotearoa) > 10 80 0.19% 78 0.21% 423 0.23% US Government > 11 63 0.15% 62 0.17% 321 0.18% Netherlands > 12 55 0.13% 54 0.15% 286 0.16% Japan > 13 47 0.11% 46 0.13% 573 0.32% United Kingdom > 14 46 0.11% 45 0.12% 267 0.15% Egypt > 15 45 0.11% 45 0.12% 138 0.08% Belgium > 16 44 0.10% 40 0.11% 122 0.07% Mexico > 17 42 0.10% 42 0.11% 184 0.10% US Military > 18 23 0.05% 22 0.06% 85 0.05% Non-Profit Organization > 19 11 0.03% 11 0.03% 76 0.04% Italy > 20 9 0.02% 8 0.02% 68 0.04% Croatia (Hrvatska) > 21 5 0.01% 4 0.01% 23 0.01% Switzerland > 22 4 0.01% 4 0.01% 45 0.02% Czech Republic > 23 4 0.01% 4 0.01% 45 0.02% Denmark > 24 4 0.01% 4 0.01% 45 0.02% Israel > 25 4 0.01% 4 0.01% 45 0.02% Iceland > 26 4 0.01% 4 0.01% 45 0.02% Sweden > 27 4 0.01% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% South Africa > 28 3 0.01% 2 0.01% 5 0.00% Spain > 29 2 0.00% 1 0.00% 6 0.00% Poland > > > Bill Potts, CMS > Roseville, CA > http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
