[Mycroft] [Statistics] January 2004, Week 2 (full week)
Ricky
ricky at linuxbourg.ch
Mon Jan 12 11:35:04 EST 2004
Hello all,
Viva vivisimo! Vivisimo is the word of the week: new challenger, closest
challenger, most error pages... you'll see vivisimo everywhere in these
stats. Last week on rank 17 with 35 hits (5 per day) it ranked this week
on rank 11 with ... 291 searches (over 40 per day), which is an increase
of 830%!!! A closer analysis of the vivisimo phenomenon yields that most
of the hits were made on Monday and Tuesday (see attached image),
declining dramatically at the end of the week. This points to a very
punctual action somewhere on the net. Unfortunately, I haven't been able
to find anything interesting in the referrers.
By the way, the graph shows the two highest engines (dictionary and
google), the current number 10 (dogpile, which has only a little bit
more than vivisimo) and shows how much of their weekly hits they made in
one day (expressed in percent). While the top 2 are very regular (around
14% daily), dogpile is a little bit irregular (Monday the quicklink was
launched a little bit late because of our CVS problem), while
Saturday-Sunday shows some irregularities which I can't explain, but
nevertheless, quite regular compared to vivisimo.
I've also checked the unique IPs and noticed that there's not just one
person out there sending in hundreds of search requests in order to
manipulate these stats. In fact, the ration unique-IP/Total-searches is
quite the same for all 4 compared engines.
Since I've never used vivisimo, I thought I could have a look. To my
surprize, on the frontpage you can read: "Mozilla Users - Install Search
Plugin!" Yeah, that's right, they just copied Alan Bramley's plugin and
modified it slightly. Here's the diff:
<input name="query" user>
-<input name="v:sources" value="MSN,Netscape,Lycos,Looksmart,FindWhat">
+<input name="v:sources" value="Web">
<input name="sourceid" value="Mozilla-search">
-
-#Interpret section doesn't work with frames
-#<interpret
-# browserResultType="result"
-# resultListStart="results retrieved "
-# resultListEnd="Result Pages:"
-# resultItemStart=" </span>"
-# resultItemEnd="URL: "
-#>
</search>
<BROWSER
- update="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/Vivisimo.src"
- updateIcon="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/Vivisimo.png"
+ update="http://vivisimo.com/mozbar"
+ updateIcon="http://vivisimo.com/images/Vivisimo.png"
updateCheckDays="7"
>
Ok, so time to go to the detailed stats as usual.
==============================================
General summary
From 05.01.2004 00:01:37
To 11.01.2004 23:54:41
Duration 167:53:04
Searches/Hour 153.30
> General summary
> From 29.12.2003 00:00:25
> To 04.01.2004 23:59:57
> Duration 167:59:32
> Searches/Hour 126.48
Last week already, we had a huge increase in searches/hour, this time
again, however not as strong as it was last week (+38 per hour), this
time "only" +27)
Total Searches 25736 100%
0 result 1521 6%
1-15 results 5128 20%
16-30 results 2099 8%
31+ results 4216 16%
QuickLink 12767 50%
> Total Searches 21247 100%
> 0 result 1023 5%
> 1-15 results 4136 19%
> 16-30 results 1525 7%
> 31+ results 3543 17%
> QuickLink 11020 52%
Looks like things are stabilizing here. Last week we had a major change
du to the introduction of categories.
Advanced form 8038 31% 100%
Nothing special 163 1% 2%
Country 63 0% 1%
Language 192 1% 2%
Category 7620 30% 95%
> Advanced form 6626 31% 100%
> Nothing special 156 1% 2%
> Country 44 0% 1%
> Language 142 1% 2%
> Category 6284 30% 95%
No change, other than the absolute numbers...
Category Top 10 7621
1. Computer 785 10% .
2. Language dictionary735 10% +1
3. File Sharing 650 9% -1
4. Programming 542 7% +2
5. Academic 531 7% -1
6. Reference 499 7% -1
7. Music 498 7% .
8. General 459 6% .
9. Mozilla 403 5% .
10. Undefined 375 5% .
> Category Top 10 6284
> 1. Computer 604 10% +1
> 2. File Sharing 597 10% +1
> 3. Language dictionary556 9% +5
> 4. Academic 437 7% +1
> 5. Reference 422 7% -4
> 6. Programming 418 7% .
> 7. Music 416 7% .
> 8. General 391 6% -4
> 9. Mozilla 348 6% -1
> 10. Undefined 301 5% N
Surprizingly (or not?), the top 10 has remained very stable, with the
inevitable 1-2 ranks shifts inside the top 10, given the very close numbers.
Search for a name 17788 69% 100%
10 most frequent 13414 52% 75%
Preprocessed 473 2% 3%
Cache 2330 9% 13%
> Search for a name 14612 69% 100%
> 10 most frequent 11579 54% 79%
> Preprocessed 323 2% 2%
> Cache 1612 8% 11%
Nothing really interesting here. The cache has slightly increased and
the most frequent have a smaller share than last week. Due to the
newcomer vivisimo?
Top 75% searches 13414 75%
1. dictionary 2913 16%
2. google 2597 15%
3. yahoo 1428 8%
4. imdb 1410 8%
5. ebay 1045 6%
6. astalavista 1002 6%
7. amazon 866 5%
8. alltheweb 794 4%
9. altavista 774 4%
10. dogpile 585 3%
> Top 75% searches 11029 75%
> 1. dictionary 2527 17%
> 2. google 2330 16%
> 3. yahoo 1217 8%
> 4. imdb 1100 8%
> 5. astalavista 894 6%
> 6. ebay 802 5%
> 7. amazon 790 5%
> 8. altavista 687 5%
> 9. alltheweb 682 5%
Only interesting thing here is that this time, 10 searches made it to a
total of 75%, while last week only 9 searches could achieve that.
Top 3 bad query strings
1. vivismo 21 0.08% 1.38%
2. dhl 11 0.04% 0.72%
3. phone 10 0.04% 0.66%
> Top 3 bad query strings
> 1. shockwave 12 0.06% 1.17%
> 2. gamefaqs 9 0.04% 0.88%
> 3. ask.com 8 0.04% 0.78%
>
>> Top 3 bad query strings
>> 1. metager 10 0.07% 0.87%
>> 2. gamefaqs 8 0.05% 0.70%
>> 3. mycroft 7 0.05% 0.61%
>>
>>> Top 3 bad query strings
>>> 1. gamefaqs 10 0.06% 0.75%
>>> 2. crack 9 0.05% 0.67%
>>> 3. metager 8 0.05% 0.60%
>>>
>>>> Top 3 bad query strings
>>>> 1. google 20 0.12% 1.40%
>>>> 2. m-w.com 12 0.07% 0.84%
>>>> 3. google.co.uk 9 0.05% 0.63%
>>>>
>>>>> Top 3 bad query strings
>>>>> 1. metager 14 0.08% 0.90%
>>>>> 2. suprnova 13 0.07% 0.83%
>>>>> 3. google.co.jp 11 0.06% 0.71%
Really interesting. Something new this time. Vivisimo topping this list
with the nice spelling of "vivismo". There are many other misspellings
of this, like "vivissimo", "visisimo" and so on. dhl and phone are the
first time in this top. Let's keep an eye on them!
Top 10 for Website
1. dictionary .
2. google .
3. yahoo .
4. imdb .
5. ebay +1
6. astalavista -1
7. amazon .
8. alltheweb +1
9. altavista -1
N. vivisimo N
> Top 10 for Website
> 1. dictionary .
> 2. google .
> 3. yahoo .
> 4. imdb .
> 5. astalavista .
> 6. ebay .
> 7. amazon +1
> 8. altavista -1
> 9. alltheweb .
> N. dogpile N
Vivisimo is really an interesting challenger. Usually, a challenger is
waaaaay below number 10 (one fourth of the number 10), but this time,
it's one half of the number 10, meaning the double of a regular
challenger. The interesting thing here is: will the quicklink attract as
many searches as it did from our unknown source at the beginning of last
week, in which case, vivisimo could cick out altavista from the top.
Speaking of altavista: we can see a steady fall since we started this
top. First on rank 5 (end of November), then floating between ranks 7
and 8 and now dropping first time down to rank number 9... On the other
hand, the most stable in this top 10 has been imdb, which has been on
rank number 4 for 7 weeks now!
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