Traffic Analysis of hits to www.wfu.edu
July 26, 2007 - 7:00AM-12:00AM

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raw data for 07/25/2007 raw data for 07/26/2007

Chronology of events (represented by black diamonds on the graph above)

timecomment# of hits
13:41Skip Prosser is pronounced dead.821
14:45 -
15:00		Rumors start appearing on Internet message boards, such as accboards.com1126
15:11An update is made to Skip Prosser's Wikipedia page with a comment about his death. The change is made by pool-71-111-201-96.rlghnc.dsl-w.verizon.net / 71.111.201.961489
15:16First search thru WFU Google Search interface for "Skip Prosser" and "dies". (At least it was the first search that has a result that hits www.wfu.edu)1602
15:24WXII reports Prosser collapses.1919
15:40Winston-Salem Journal reports Prosser collapses.2512
15:50foxsports.com reports Prosser has died. Other sports sites such as espn.com and sportsline.com have similar stories in the following minutes.3010
16:35Peak hits per minute to www.wfu.edu.7038
17:17Window on Wake Forest is updated with Prosser graphic and info.4058
17:20Primary image on www.wfu.edu home page is changed to a Prosser tribute.4903
17:34Primary image of Prosser is removed from WFU home page and WOWF.6893
17:40Associated Press reports, "WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) . Wake Forest says men's basketball coach Skip Prosser has died."3959
21:00Athletic department holds news conference with details on Prosser's death.2700
21:20WFU home page & Window on Wake Forest are updated with Prosser articles and guest book.2616
23:14WFU News Service sends out a broadcast email to Faculty, Staff and Students.1831

Response time of www.wfu.edu

www.wfu.edu remained responsive throughout the day. Average time to download http://www.wfu.edu/index.html was around 12ms the majority of the day, with a spike to a still reasonable value of 37ms around 9pm.
www.wfu.edu response time graph
The web server hardware had just been upgraded the previous Saturday, July 21st.
It was on a 4-CPU 166MHz PowerPC 604e system ("io") purchased in April 1997.
Now it is on a 4-CPU 375MHz Power3-II system ("hawksnest") purchased in December 2000.

More statistics

web server stats from 07/26/2007
 Statistics include per second, per minute & per hour statistics. Also includes top URLs and top clients.

This is #2 on the all-time hits-per-day list for www.wfu.edu - 2,041,627 hits by 53,455 unique IP addresses. (#1 is WFU's Orange Bowl appearance, January 2, 2007, with 2,926,123 hits)