At 11:12 AM 06/07/99 -0400, Patrick McManus wrote:
>:: I couldn't agree more. But I'm not sure the situation is as bleak as you
>:: think since most of the information retrieved by the majority of users
>:: comes from a relatively small number of sites.
>
>you've said this a couple of times; can you cite a reference?
Analyzing the logs of several very large ISPs. [Network Appliance makes
NetCache, the most widely deployed commercial web cache product.] The
amount of 'bytes transferred to users' is skewed towards a few sites, e.g.
sites like geocities.com and yahoo.com. I can't give exact numbers,
unfortunately but when I say 'a few' I mean less than 100, sometimes less
than 30.
Rgds,
John
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