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We continue to experience extremely high traffic on weekdays, and the “peak” period now appears to be 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. We have increased our contracted bandwidth to 10 megabits per second (Mbps), which has brought some relief. ITTS is investigating to see if this traffic is routine or exceptional. If it is routine, we may need to increase our contracted bandwidth even more.

Website traffic increased 25% to 30% between 2004 and 2005. Total page views for 2004 were generally in the range of 6 million to 7 million per month. For 2005, page views were consistently well over 7.5 million, and later months have hit the 10 million page views mark.

Alexa, a service that ranks websites based on usage (1 = most heavily used), shows the ALA website as consistently being ranked about 12,000 in popularity for 2005. In 2004 the ALA website was generally ranked above the 20,000 mark.

We continue to experience extremely high traffic on weekdays, and the “peak” period now appears to be 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. We have increased our contracted bandwidth to 10 megabits per second (Mbps), which has brought some relief. ITTS is investigating to see if this traffic is routine or exceptional. If it is routine, we may need to increase our contracted bandwidth even more.

Website traffic increased 25% to 30% between 2004 and 2005. Total page views for 2004 were generally in the range of 6 million to 7 million per month. For 2005, page views were consistently well over 7.5 million, and later months have hit the 10 million page views mark.

Alexa, a service that ranks websites based on usage (1 = most heavily used), shows the ALA website as consistently being ranked about 12,000 in popularity for 2005. In 2004 the ALA website was generally ranked above the 20,000 mark.

System load has been reduced significantly with the recasting by Tim Smith of how tagged pages are created and presented out of the SQL database. In short, the Active Matter system was programmed to select all tags (nearly 500,000), and then eliminate those that were not relevant to the page in question. Tim re-wrote the procedure to select only the relevant tags in the first place. We continue to look at system load issues, but further enhancements a) probably would not gain us that much performance improvement, and b) will obviated by the move to Collage.

The website has been considerably more stable since the tagged page routine was changed in May. Traffic seems to have moderated as well. We are experimenting with Urchin, a website statistics program from Google, which appears to be very flexible and comprehensive. If it is determined that Urchin will fit our needs, it will be implemented in conjunction with the rollout of the new content management system.

After some experimentation, we believe Urchin will meet our needs, and plan to implement it along with the new CMS.