[Mycroft] [Statistics] January 2004, Week 3 (full week)

Ricky ricky at linuxbourg.ch
Mon Jan 19 10:36:05 EST 2004


Howdy,

Before starting this week's statistics, let me just explain last week's 
mystery: vivisimo made some unexpected boost, but we had no clue on 
where all these vivisimo requests came from. Until Mat pointed to a 
slashdot article 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/05/1839233&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=185&tid=95 
which was discussing this CNN article: 
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/05/seeing.search1.ap/index.html
There was no link whatsoever to mycroft, but we assume that many 
slashdot readers are mozilla users and know about mycroft. So all these 
people (or at least, some of them) came to mycroft in order to see 
whether we have vivisimo, and since we had it, probably also downloaded 
it. In effect, we have been mini-slashdotted ;-)

Now the stats of this week:

==============================================

General summary
   From                  12.01.2004 00:00:32
   To                    18.01.2004 23:59:54
   Duration                        167:59:22
   Searches/Hour         165.18

> General summary
>   From                  05.01.2004 00:01:37
>   To                    11.01.2004 23:54:41
>   Duration                        167:53:04
>   Searches/Hour         153.30
> 

The increase in searches per hour doesn't seem to stop...

Total Searches         27749    100%
   0 result              1459      5%
   1-15 results          5021     18%
   16-30 results         2489      9%
   31+ results           4511     16%
   QuickLink            14264     51%

> 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%

... while the results people get, stay stable ...

Advanced form           8574     31%    100%
   Nothing special        133      0%      2%
   Country                 81      0%      1%
   Language               178      1%      2%
   Category              8182     29%     95%

> Advanced form           8038     31%    100%
>   Nothing special        163      1%      2%
>   Country                 63      0%      1%
>   Language               192      1%      2%
>   Category              7620     30%     95%

... and the usage of the advanced form didn't change much either.

Category Top 10         8182     29%    100%
   1.  Computer           814      3%     10%      .
   2.  Language dictio... 791      3%     10%      .
   3.  File Sharing       687      2%      8%      .
   4.  Programming        622      2%      8%      .
   5.  Academic           603      2%      7%      .
   6.  Music              556      2%      7%     +1
   7.  Reference          555      2%      7%     -1
   8.  General            470      2%      6%      .
   9.  Undefined          413      1%      5%      .
   10. Mozilla            390      1%      5%      .

> 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%      .

The category top 10 also remained very stable.

Search for a name      19205     69%    100%
   10 most frequent     14975     54%     78%
   Preprocessed           399      1%      2%
   Cache                 2244      8%     12%

> Search for a name      17788     69%    100%
>   10 most frequent     13414     52%     75%
>   Preprocessed           473      2%      3%
>   Cache                 2330      9%     13%

Not much change here either.

Top 75% searches       14975             78%
   1.  dictionary        3189             17%
   2.  google            3072             16%
   3.  yahoo             1553              8%
   4.  imdb              1443              8%
   5.  astalavista       1139              6%
   6.  ebay              1125              6%
   7.  amazon             947              5%
   8.  altavista          904              5%
   9.  alltheweb          883              5%
   10. vivisimo           720              4%

> 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%

As you can see, vivisimo made a very reasonable part (4%) but was still 
way behind number 9 (alltheweb), while altavista, which I thought might 
be falling out of the top 10 this week, due to its generally bad 
ranking, went up to rank number 8.

Top 3 bad query strings
   1.  all music            9   0.03%   0.62%
       metager              9   0.03%   0.62%
   3.  mapquest             8   0.03%   0.55%

> 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%

metager again in the top of "not found"s, while it's first time to see 
mapquest (cannot be done since it needs multiple field input) and "all 
music" (we have allmusic).

Top 10 for Website
   1.  dictionary                 .
   2.  google                     .
   3.  yahoo                      .
   4.  imdb                       .
   5.  astalavista               +1
   6.  ebay                      -1
   7.  amazon                     .
   8.  altavista                 +1
   9.  alltheweb                 -1
   N.  leo                        N

> 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

Some small changes in the top 10, and new challenger, a classical one: 
leo, the German-English online dictionary. Note that in a few weeks, it 
will start a German-French dictionary service, which might attract some 
more searches here at mycroft, and which might make this challenger even 
stronger...

Otherwise: this was really a dull statistics report, wasn't it?

ricky



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