[Mycroft] [Statistics] January 2004, Week 2 (full week)

[Matthew A. McGuigan]

Ricky wrote:

> 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.
>
This should help explain the Vivisimo spike. 

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/05/1839233&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=185&tid=95


mat