Re: [SLUG] Apache hits 62.8%

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 01:50:28PM +1000, John Wiltshire (jw@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> From: Rev Simon Rumble [mailto:simon@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 12:16:11PM +1000, Ken Yap uttered:
> > > http://www.netcraft.com/survey/
> > > 
> > > And IIS dropped 0.5%.

[snip]

> Netcraft is even more flawed than that.  Remember it counts distinct URLs,
> not machines.  On a large site (www.hotmail.com etc) it will undercount the
> number of machines, but on virtual hosted sites it will count the machine
> once for each different URL it responds to.  Apache has the massive
> advantage over things like Netscape in that it is the server of choice for
> small, low hit count sites which probably never get more than one or two
> hits a month and yet count just as much as slashdot.org as far as the survey
> is concerned.

In the first moment I thought this would matter.
But then I realized it doesnt:

  They always test this way!

So for the statistics its fine, as I remember one of the most important
things in those tests is keep the way you test constant.


Jobst




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