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Hourly Access Statistics for this Web Site & Server Load Averages

Time Hits in Hour KBs in Hour Hits in Day KBs in Day Load Average
11-12 PM 431 1850 14498 61550 0.9
10-11 PM 403 2250 14531 61880 0.3
09-10 PM 591 2630 14344 60850 0.2
08-09 PM 553 2220 14255 60140 0.3
07-08 PM 723 2950 14060 59140 0.3
06-07 PM 742 2850 13934 58870 0.3
05-06 PM 846 3560 13712 58010 0.5
04-05 PM 813 3660 13593 58250 0.3
03-04 PM 907 3960 13368 57490 0.6
02-03 PM 837 3730 13497 58100 1.5
01-02 PM 957 4070 13524 57810 0.4
12-01 PM 900 3810 13792 58450 0.4
11-12 AM 984 4040 14052 59510 0.5
10-11 AM 703 2900 14195 60380 0.5
09-10 AM 868 3730 14142 60130 0.4
08-09 AM 576 2350 14351 60770 0.4
07-08 AM 616 2480 14281 60690 0.4
06-07 AM 526 2070 14410 61060 0.3
05-06 AM 302 1330 14339 60960 0.6
04-05 AM 343 1430 14424 61290 0.2
03-04 AM 291 1200 14454 61350 0.4
02-03 AM 318 1220 14370 60950 0.2
01-02 AM 276 1210 14407 60960 0.2
00-01 AM 231 1090 14355 60840 0.2
Average 606 2577 14135 60039 0.4
The Statistics on this page shows the following in the six columns:

  • Time Period - Most recent at top of form - Updated hourly at 5 minutes past the hour
  • Number of Hits during the hour
  • Number of kilobytes transfered during the hour
  • Number of Hits during the previous 24 hours up to and including this hour
  • Number of kilobytes transfered during the previous 24 hours up to and including this hour
  • Server 15 minute Load Factor Averages
    The Load Factor is the average number of processes that are waiting to be executed by the server. These are processes that cannot execute because they are waiting for a disk access, or a memory swap, or just waiting for their turn to get a share of the central processing unit. It does not include processes waiting for user input. The average is calculated for a fifteen minute time period by dividing the number of processes (jobs) waiting at numerous finite points in time when the server is polled by the number of times the server is polled in that time period. To view the current one minute, five minute, and fifteen minute average load factors respectively, press the button below. Hit your back button afterwards to return to this page.

    The Load Factor shows how congested or backed up processes are on the server. The lower the Load Factor is the more resources are available to the user and the faster throughput on the server. The higher the Load Factor is the less resources are available and the slower the throughput on the server. I have the Load Factor on this page because I want to see if there is a correlation between low hit rates and transfers when there is a high Load Factor on the server. The Load Factor on this server has been known to range from a low of 0 to a high in excess of 40. The following scale provides you with some measure of how to interpret the Load Factors shown on the above chart.

  • .1-1      Greased Lightning
  • 1-3       Smooth Sailing
  • 4-5       Slight Delays
  • 6-10     Noticiable Delays
  • 11-15   Very Long Delays
  • 16-20   Over Loaded - Possibly Runaway Jobs
  • 21 +     Server Unresponsive - Intolerable Delays

    All of the above performance descriptions are for the server only. There may be network delays that can significantly impact your perception of response. Because of Network overload or other network routing problems, your request for service to this server might be routed from Palo Alto to Chicago and then to Paris, back down to Los Angeles, out to St. Louis, and finally to this server located in Mountain View. You can evaluate and gauge some of these factors by looking at your status line in Netscape. While your packets are taking a grand tour of the US heartland and Europe, your status line will be saying Contacting Host. Eventually the message will state Host Contacted which means now you are waiting for packets to be sent back to your client machine. Again, the Packets may take a grand tour around half the world. You may think the host is slow while you are waiting for these world traveling packets to reach your desk. However the Load Factor might indicate that your request was handled instantly and all of the delay was due to a network overload and not a loaded server. You may also examine the route and the time taken by your packets from your site to our site by running our tracer route program. This program shows how much of the response time is due to congestion on the network.

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