[BSDCert-Announce] BSD Certification Group Newsletter for January 2006
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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
January 2006
Contents
* 1 BSD Usage Survey Results now Available in mx-mx
* 2 UKUUG Spring Conference 2006
* 3 BSDCG Meeting at ShmooCon
* 4 Mailing Lists
* 5 Website Statistics Report and Analysis
* 6 About this Newsletter
1 BSD Usage Survey Results now Available in mx-mx
The Mexican Spanish translation team has completed their translation
of the BSD Usage Survey results. The mx-mx PDF is available for
download from
http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_es_mx.pdf.
2 UKUUG Spring Conference 2006
Dru Lavigne will be providing a keynote as well as a talk on BSD
Certification at this year's LISA in Durham, England in March. The
schedule and registration details for the conference have not been
posted yet so look for more details in the next edition of the
newsletter.
3 BSDCG Meeting at ShmooCon
Six Group members met in person during ShmooCon in Washington, D.C. on
January 14. They discussed BSDCG branding and logos, BSD advocacy
website ideas, raising funds, and other miscellaneous topics.
4 Mailing Lists
The BSD Certification Group mailing list currently has 822
subscribers. And the announcements list has 130 subscribers.
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http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert-announce/. It is a
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5 Website Statistics Report and Analysis
By Patrick Tracanelli
In December, we had 4830 different visitors, which is a lot lower
(around 45%) than October and (around 11%) than November. In the first
months of 2005, we had an average of visitors which used to count
around 3000 and 3600. In August, September, and October, this average
increased a lot, and now since November the average is back to
approximately 4800-5900 visitors.
It averaged in December around 142 visitors a day, and about 25 Mbytes
of data transferred in a daily basis (our record, from July 2005 is
approximately 220 Mb).
On December 12 and 13, we reached the month's top access, counting 310
and 270 visitors, respectively, and 14008 Kbytes transferred.
Usually our main access period is between 10:00 and 18:00 hours. In
December, this scene changed a little bit, the main access period is
now between 12:00 and 19:00 hours. This seven-hour range was
responsible for 59% of all our visits in December.
In September 2005, we had the second Survey released, and it is still
a well accessed URL in October, November and December. The BSD
Associate PDF release from October also counts up on the most accessed
URLs in December, including direct access from outside websites. But
this month, the most accessed URL was the root URL, as it is usually
the case in the last months.
The top 10 accessed pages are:
1 22.33% /
2 5.00% /error.html
3 3.24% /robots.txt
4 0.45% /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
5 0.39% /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
6 0.29% /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
7 0.22% /downloads/sponsorship.pdf
8 0.19% /downloads/brochure8.pdf
9 0.18% /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
10 0.16% /downloads/20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf
Top 5 URL by Kbytes
For December, the top URLs regarding data transfer rate are mostly
related to the Usage Survey and the BSD Associate exam document,
which, together with the Road MAP are the most downloaded files.
# KBytes URL
1 83417 /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf
2 66301 /
3 64099 /downloads/sr1_links.pdf
4 44687 /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf
5 41022 /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf
Top 5 Entry Pages
In December, the root website is again the main entry page, followed
by the error pages and files to be downloaded, especially the Usage
Survey.
# Hits URL
1 10552 /
2 2444 /error.html
3 44 /downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html
4 29 /downloads/NewsMay05Rev7.html
5 14 /downloads/pr-jta-20050720.html
Top Referrals
Our top referrers are a set of websites which usually show up as the
top referrers for the previous months. The well known Chinese blog
site, http://blog.china-pub.com is the number one page which attracted
people to our website in December. Again the same site is also the
second, and the third and fourth places are also from China,
specifically FreeBSDChina.org. There are three consecutive months that
Chinese websites are among the top referrals for BSDCG. This month
they are the top. Following the Chinese websites we have two other
websites known to refer to us a lot, Richard's Tao Security and the
BSD section at Slashdot. And a new one, FreeBSD Diary.
# Hits Referrer
1 2031 http://blog.china-pub.com/more.asp
2 1801 http://blog.china-pub.com/blog.asp
3 1013 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/viewtopic.php
4 454 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_27101.h
tml
5 167 http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/09/18/1743239.sh
tml
6 149 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_26680.h
tml
7 148 http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_26414.h
tml
9 128 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_taos
ecur...
9 128 http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_taos
ecur...
10 121 http://www.freebsddiary.org/
About Browsers / User Agents
Just like on the last months, the Mozilla family of web browsers are
still the most used navigation applications that people use to visit
us, which count over 54% of total visits. Most visits of Mozilla
Family browser are from Microsoft Windows platforms using Firefox. The
second most usual combination is Mac OS X with Firefox/Mozilla, the
third is FreeBSD with Firefox and FreeBSD with Mozilla. Later, we get
Linux with Firefox/Mozilla, and everything else are about the same on
usage compared to each other.
Microsoft Internet Explorer on both Microsoft Windows (31%) and Mac OS
X (9%) represent approximately 40% of our visitors browser
application.
Google Bot and MSN Bot are usually getting to our website. It is true
for a number of other spiders. The fetch(1) application, "fetch
libfetch/2.0" which became usual at our website in the last two months
is now a common issued application, it counted 4186 hits this month.
No video games or refrigerators have reached us in December as it
happened before, and the mobile telephones hits lowered from 130 in
November to 46 in December - 20 of those, from a Treo telephone
(again, probably the same user person, always).
Geo (countries) Statistics on Visitors
Thirty-seven percent of our visits were from the US, while about 19%
could not be resolved. Among those resolved, Poland, Brazil and Canada
are in the top listing of countries which visits us most often. All
countries which do not natively speak English. Here you can follow the
top thirty countries/regions which visited us in December.
# Hits Country/Location
1 12988 Unresolved/Unknown
2 12454 Network
3 6171 US Commercial
4 2333 Poland
5 1464 Brazil
6 1263 Canada
7 1258 Mexico
8 1243 Germany
9 876 Japan
10 631 Italy
11 491 Russian Federation
12 449 France
13 425 Netherlands
14 294 United Kingdom
15 268 US Educational
16 267 Romania
17 243 Non-Profit Organization
18 238 Australia
19 234 Switzerland
20 228 US Government
21 202 Sweden
22 164 India
23 163 Lithuania
24 160 Taiwan
25 141 Greece
26 140 Colombia
27 127 South Africa
28 123 Czech Republic
29 123 Thailand
30 123 Ukraine
Search expressions
Ninety-four percent of the searches which lead to BSDCG's website are
made on Google. The other 6% is shared among MSN, Yahoo and Altavista,
with some minor (fewer than 0.2%) for Lycos. The top ten strings when
people searched the Web in December are:
# Hits Search Expression
1 38 FreeBSD Certification
2 23 bsdcertification
3 11 BSD Certification Group
4 11 BSD certification
5 9 BSD certifications
6 9 BSDCert
7 8 FreeBSD Cert
8 4 The BSD Certification Group
9 4 The BSD Certification Group Inc.
10 4 bsd
6 About this Newsletter
The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every month, near
the middle of the month.
Sorry that the newsletter was delayed this month - several members of
the BSDCG spent January 13-15 at ShmooCon.
Thank you to the contributors to this newsletter: Dru Lavigne and
Patrick Tracanelli. The editor is Jeremy C. Reed.
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_________________________________________________________________
Jeremy C. Reed
technical support & remote administration
http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/
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