On the universality of rank distributions of website popularity

We present an extensive analysis of long-term statistics of the queries to websites using logs collected on several web caches in Russian academic networks and on US IRCache caches. We check the sensitivity of the statistics to several parameters: (1) duration of data collection, (2) geographical lo...

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Published in:Computer networks (Amsterdam, Netherlands : 1999) Netherlands : 1999), 2006-08, Vol.50 (11), p.1769-1780
Main Authors: Krashakov, Serge A., Teslyuk, Anton B., Shchur, Lev N.
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Cache
Data collection
Evaluation
Internet
Online information retrieval
Parameter estimation
Performance measures
Rank distribution
Ranking
Searching
Statistical analysis
Studies
Traffic flow
Transaction logs
Use statistics
User behaviour
Web-traffic
Websites
World Wide Web
Zipf law
Zipf's Law
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Data collection
Evaluation
Internet
Online information retrieval
Parameter estimation
Performance measures
Rank distribution
Ranking
Searching
Statistical analysis
Studies
Traffic flow
Transaction logs
Use statistics
User behaviour
Web-traffic
Websites
World Wide Web
Zipf law
Zipf's Law
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