For this study, we use the access files of two different servers (with two different behavior and sizes): the W3C server, which is fairly frequently visited (almost 400000 requests a day in mid 1995), and uses 2 workstations (www12 and www13) with DNS round robin, and a less frequently visited server, the INRIA web server (40000 requests/day in Nov. 1996, where almost 20% of the requests come from the local network). Both use the CERN httpd software.
| W3C (www12) | INRIA | |
| Total requests: | 303396 | 41959 |
| Number of requested documents: | 5270 | 6841 |
| Bytes | 2.3GB | 250MB |
| Total size of requested documents | 72MB | 105MB |
| CGI requests: | <1% | 2% |
For the W3C Web server, the ten most popular documents represent almost 30% of the total traffic in bytes transmitted by the server.
hits
size
URL
8962
6236
/
10082
93
/hypertext/WWW/Icons/WWW/new_red.gif
10119
227
/hypertext/WWW/Icons/WWW/star.km.gif
10146
1407
/hypertext/WWW/Icons/WWW/WWWlogo.gif
14791
137
/hypertext/WWW/Icons/WWW/star11t.gif
15402
83
/hypertext/WWW/Icons/WWW/new.gif
15474
2709
/hypertext/WWW/Icons/WWW/ListOfServers.gif
17300
17453
/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html
22661
1437
/hypertext/WWW/Icons/WWW/Virtual_Library.gif
23852
15392
/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview.html