WWW.AU
The WWW.AU index has been accessed from approximately 40 different countries. The graph above shows the top 10 regions in terms of the number of hits during the four week period, mid February to mid March.
The percentage of hits coming from each of these sites can be compared to the percentages from the same regions, two months earlier. It is interesting that in the December to January period, Australian users comprised only one third of the usage, whereas this grew to two thirds only two months later. The percentage from most of the other domains dropped accordingly, with the biggest drop being from US sites.
This graph shows the most used categories in the index. This was measured by counting the database entries accessed by users over a four week period (mid February to mid March).
The most accessed category is that containing the general University home pages, although this dropped a little in relative terms from two months earlier. The biggest relative increases were in the Commercial and Computing categories.
Jan % March % Diff
University 18.1 16.0 -2.1
Commercial 6.3 13.2 6.9
Computing 3.7 9.4 5.7
Personal 8.8 6.5 -2.2
Miscellaneous 8.8 6.5 -2.3
Network 2.5 5.4 2.9
Government 4.4 4.3
Movie 5.2 4.3
Multimedia 5.2 3.1 -2.1
Research 2.0 2.5
Art 4.4 2.5 -1.9
Education 2.2 2.4
Music 3.4 2.4 -1.1
Library 2.7 2.3
Environment 1.8 2.3
Computer_Science 2.2 1.8
Medical 1.8 1.6
Engineering 1.6 1.5
Astronomy 1.2 1.4
Computer_Centre 1.4 1.3
Student 1.4 1.3
TAFE 1.7 1.3
Earth_Science 1.6 1.2
Social_Science 1.6 1.2
Business_Studies 1.4 1.2
School 1.0 1.1
Architecture 1.3 0.7
Chemistry 0.7 0.5
Mathematics 0.8 0.4
Physics 0.5 0.3
