- From: John Martin <jmartin@netapp.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 11:55:11 -0400 (EDT)
- To: mcmanus@appliedtheory.com
- Cc: mcmanus@appliedtheory.com, koen@win.tue.nl, connolly@w3.org, roconnor@uwaterloo.ca, www-talk@w3.org, jigsaw@w3.org
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 ** Temporary phone number 5-9 July 1999: +1 415 269 0562 --------------------------------------------------------------- Network Appliance Main Office: +31 23 567 9600 Kruisweg 799 Fax: +31 23 567 9699 NL-2132 NG Hoofddorp Voicemail/Mobile: +31 654 308 275 ---------------------------------------------------------------
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