The reason I ask is that access through the Web is skyrocketing, having
more than tripled in the past month. We just broke 3000 accesses a day,
and it seems to go up at least 100 accesses every weekday.
Note that the "3000" figure is inflated quite a bit due to the "directory"
documents used to provide the structure, and the sub-documents created for
some of the FAQs (mainly those in digest format). If I ignore the directories
and sub-documents, we are up to about 1100 accesses a day. All the web
clients I know of cache documents once they've retrieved them, so there
shouldn't be any double counting from moving around in the FAQ cobweb.
Still, it is possible that there are web clients out there that don't
cache.
I do think there is a strong "reading frenzy" effect that you don't get
with ftp (although you might with gopher). People are actually browsing
through the FAQs like they were one big book, or perhaps a collection of
books, rather than just taking the time to retrieve the one FAQ that they
are interested in. Also people who might previously have been inclined
to ftp their own copy seem quite content now to access it through
the Web whenever they need it (which has the beneficial side-effect of
making sure people don't read out-of-date information).
How do my statistics compare to other access methods?
tom
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