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

[Ricky]

Matthew A. McGuigan wrote:
> Alan Bramley wrote:
> 
>> Ricky wrote:
>>
>>> Then, I've never said that vivisimo itself brought us these visitors. 
>>> There must be something else, but I cannot figure out why Monday and 
>>> Tuesday don't show any relevant referrer for that. Maybe it's a blog 
>>> where the link was no URL, so people would have to copy it and paste 
>>> it in the address bar. If this is so, then it must be a veeeery 
>>> popular blog and a very interesting article too...
>>
>>
>>
>> Well, how they are finding Mycroft has got me puzzled. There is no 
>> mention of Mycroft on Vivisimo's site. Their Press Page links to the 
>> CNN article that Mat mentioned but again this does not mention us. 
>> I've just spent an hour searching blogs with Feedster, Daypop etc., 
>> and whist there is plenty of chatter about the CNN article (typically 
>> "...better than Google") there is not a single mention which links 
>> Mycroft with Vivisimo.
>>
>> So, I'm coming to the conclusion it's not from a blog so possibly it's 
>> from some forum or news article? Do the IP's indicate a single country 
>> or is it global?

I don't know much about IP addresses, but the range is quite broad. I've 
made
a few xtraceroute's and here's what it came up with. I detected the 
country according to the latest TLD (in Europe), described the area of 
the USA based on what I could see on the map (and my limited knowledge 
about the USA). Australia was a pretty clear one, even though the trace 
first went to New Zealand.

62.233.*.*	Poland
80.131.*.*	Germany
63.105.*.*	USA West Coast
151.121.*.*	USA Mountain
80.109.*.*	Austria
217.158.*.*	UK
66.7.*.*	USA West Coast
160.33.*.*	USA West Coast
24.233.*.*	USA Mountain
140.32.*.*	USA East Coast
202.49.*.*	Australia
129.15.*.*	USA Central


> Alan,
> 
> Slashdot has a large amount of Mozilla users that are already familiar 
> with Mycroft.  Slashdotters likely asked Vivisimo to add the plugin to 
> their site.  It wasn't on their site that day and CNN users would have 
> asked for a Netscape plugin if anything.
> Slashdot is known for knocking web server off the net when they link to 
> them.  A term they call Slashdotting.
> http://slashdot.org/faq/suggestions.shtml#su910
> 
> I'm among those statistics, as I was checking to see if we had the 
> plugin after reading the story.  The slashdot article is likely the 
> source of much of the traffic.

Very much agree with you. Which would explain we have no referrers. And 
slashdot can be considered as a 'veeeeery popular blog', as I wrote 
yesterday. For me the mystery is solved. :) Thanks for your great 
investigation work.

ricky