Subject: [R] What made us so popular Nov 16-20? From: Duncan Murdoch Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:52:29 -0500 To: r-help Our main US mirror is cran.mirrors.pair.com, AKA cran.us.r-project.org. Pair.com keeps statistics on traffic on the mirror sites, and I got all excited when I looked at this page: http://mirrors.pair.com/pair/stats.html and saw that CRAN was 5th most popular over the last month, getting more visitors than Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice, etc. Then I looked at this graph: http://mirrors.pair.com/freebsd/stats/cran-ip.png and saw that this is likely due to a huge spike in traffic between Nov 16 and 20. Our "visitors" (not sure of the exact definition) went from the usual <10K/day up to 50-150K/day during that week. Did we get mentioned somewhere (e.g. Slashdot), or was someone just experimenting with some automated downloading? Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html