Web Server Traffic Characterization at the UFL College of Design, Construction, and Planning

- Our study evaluates user (Web browser) accesses to a Web server. We examine a Web server log that was collected for the span of several months at the College of Design, Construction, and Planning in the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. We have produced statistics that give us an insight into user access behavior. We were able to isolate cases that exhibit trends in request origination. We were also able to quantify the increase of on-campus originating requests (in-network traffic) during registration periods – about 3.6% absolute increase of total number of hits, which translates to about 2% relative increase, taking into account fluctuations in all other types of traffic. These results will be used to study a possible relationship between recent trends in student enrollment, originating from exchange programs and Web server traffic. They can also be used for server-side capacity planning. Keywords

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: PDPTA
• Authors: Zornitza Genova Prodanoff, Karen Cano
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, PDPTA 2007, Study Evaluates User, Web Server, Web Server Log