Statistics: August
A log is kept of the options and results for each random search. I wrote a small visual
basic program to analyse everything based on the data from the past 30 days.
General
| Number of searches through August 31
| 12985
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| Total number of words used in searches
| 38485
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| Number of times safemode was used
| 2294
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| Number of times Frames was used
| 11902
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| Number of times Javascript wasn't used
| 227
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| Number of times the search failed for an unknown reason
| 803
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| Number of times no URL was found
| 218
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| Actual number of usable searches
| 11964
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| Number of words in the database
| 7111
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The large number of failed queries is a result of the web server failing on
August 26th.
Website URL hits
The root URL was counted for each site visited. For example,
If a web site address 'www.news.com/paper/june/00232.html'
was hit, only 'www.news.com' was counted.
** Note that the site
wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de contains a 10000+ word list of the english language,
and so this page is generally found if an odd combination of rarely used words are
used in the search.
Top-level domain hits
The top-level domains (.com, .edu, .org, etc) in the web URLs were counted.
Not surprisingly .com makes up the majority of hits, with .org and .edu far behind.
At first I used the entire log file, however .au was ranked #4 with 407 hits (thanks
to some media exposure from Australia!). I redid the stats, using only the entries
where no country restriction was used and .au was back where it belonged.
| Top-level Domain
| Hits (out of 10155)
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| .com
| 3560
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| .org
| 1296
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| .edu
| 830
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| .uk
| 350
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| .net
| 300
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| .gov
| 265
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| .ca
| 179
|
| .us
| 168
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| .au
| 152
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| .jp
| 90
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| .de
| 65
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| .mil
| 37
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| .za
| 31
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| .nl
| 27
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| .ru
| 25
|
| .nz
| 24
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| .fr
| 24
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| .se
| 21
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| .it
| 20
|
Domain File Extension Names
The filetypes that were used in the URL were counted. .html and .htm make up
more than 70% of all the filetypes encountered. Many sites only had a root URL and
no filetype to show. '.txt' is ranked higher than usual because of the 94 hits
that http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/Papers/top10000en.txt tallied.
| File Extension
| Hits (out of 11964)
|
| .html
| 4856
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| .htm
| 3681
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| Root (no extension)
| 1228
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| .asp
| 566
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| .shtml
| 351
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| .txt
| 212
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| .cfm
| 151
|
| .php
| 133
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| .stm
| 42
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| .php3
| 35
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| .jsp
| 28
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| .cgi
| 26
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| .phtml
| 18
|
| .jhtml
| 9
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Word Frequencies
Although there is an equal probability of any word being picked out of
the 7111 words in the database, some words came up more often than others.
These are the words that were most often picked. There seems to be a bug where
a word is occasionally picked twice in a row ...
Words used 39 times: dozens
Words used 34 times: both
Words used 32 times: fares, southwest
Words used 31 times: logs
Words used 29 times: ash, executing
Words used 28 times: clever, endorsed, games
Words used 26 times: argument, drag, tutorial
Words used 25 times: challenges, cholesterol, claiming, factions, grow, minister, shallow
Words used 24 times: analyses, buffers, chips, mathematical, megabyte, neighbors, resource, shocked, withdrew
Words used 23 times: analyzer, apartment, headline, protection, require, shed, tenure, tourist, tune, varying
Words used 22 times: basement, blanket, buses, commonly, currency, damaged, detect, diluted, keystroke, pointing, religion, settlement, spurred, therapy
796 words were never used.
Frequency of option 'Number of words'
| Number of times 1 word was used in search
| 575
| 4.4%
|
| Number of times 2 words were used in search
| 680
| 5.2%
|
| Number of times 3 words were used in search (default)
| 10972
| 84%
|
| Number of times 4 words were used in search
| 156
| 1.2%
|
| Number of times 5 words were used in search
| 238
| 4.6%
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'Country' options used:
The number of times the search was restricted to specific countries
(the countries which were used less than 40 times were omitted).
| Option: Country
| Number of times used
|
| Australia
| 522
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| United States
| 428
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| Japan
| 300
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| Russia
| 122
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| Canada
| 108
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| Great Britain
| 94
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| United Kingdom
| 67
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| Belgium
| 50
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| Netherlands
| 45
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| Denmark
| 41
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| France
| 41
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'Language' options used:
The number of times the search was restricted to specific languages
(the languages which were used less than 20 times were omitted).
| Option: Language
| Number of times used
|
| English
| 3884
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| Japanese
| 310
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| Russian
| 108
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| Dutch
| 35
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| French
| 35
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| German
| 26
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