Information Research Weblog

For those interested in such matters, I have finally discovered the University of Sheffield's usage logs for the InformationR.net site. Unfortunately, for some reason, they only cover the period from 8th October 2004 and they are not accessible to outside users. However, I have copied the files to the Information Research site and will continue to do so in future.

You can find the data for October and November on the site, and you will find that they give a much more comprehensive picture of usage than the counter on the top page of the journal. Information about the stats. can be found here.

One point to note is that the statistics cover the whole of the InformationR.net site - not just Information Research. However, if you click on 'URLs' at the top of the page, you are taken to the list of the top 100 of the 2,783 URLs on the site (I knew it was a pain to maintain!), from which you can see that the top page of the journal ('/ir/') had 6,350 hits in November; the World list... ('/wl/') had 2,227, the guide to research methods ('/rm/') had 1,043, my home page ('/tdw/') had 534 and that the guide to free resources does not figure in the top 100.

The KBytes figure shows the amount of data sent out by the server - for November it was 7,251,013 KBytes, making it one of the busiest sites on the University's servers.