Web traffic - Traffic overload

Web traffic is the amount of data sent and received by visitors to a web site. It is a large portion of Internet traffic. This is determined by the number of visitors and the number of pages they visit. Sites monitor the incoming and outgoing traffic to see which parts or pages of their site are popular and if there are any apparent trends, such as one specific page being viewed mostly by people in a particular country. There are many ways to monitor this traffic and the gathered data is used to help structure sites, highlight security problems or indicate a potential lac ...

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• Web traffic - Measuring web traffic
• Web traffic - Controlling web traffic
• Web traffic - Limiting access
• Web traffic - Increasing web traffic
• Web traffic - Traffic overload
• Web traffic - Denial of service attacks
• Web traffic - Sudden popularity
• Web traffic - Top web sites

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Too much web traffic can dramatically slow down or even prevent all access to a web site. This is caused by more file requests going to the server than it can handle and may be an intentional attack on the site or simply caused by over-popularity. Large scale web sites with numerous servers can often cope with the traffic required and it is more likely that smaller services are affected by traffic overload.

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The amount of traffic seen by a web site is a measure of its popularity. By analysing the statistics of visitors it is possible to see shortcomings of the site and look to improve those areas. It is also possible to increase (or, in some cases decrease) the popularity of a site and the number of people that visit it. Web traffic - Limiting access. It is sometimes important to protect some parts of a site by password, allowing only a ...

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Web traffic is measured to see the popularity of web sites and individual pages or sections within a site. Web traffic can be analysed by viewing the traffic statistics found in the web server log file, an automatically-generated list of all the pages served. A hit is generated when any file is served. The page itself is considered a file, but images are also files, thus a page with 5 images could generate 6 hits (the 5 images and the page itself). A page view is generated when a visitor requests any page within the web site – a visitor will always generate at least one pa ...

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Web traffic, Web traffic - Measuring web traffic, Web traffic - Controlling web traffic, Web traffic - Limiting access, Web traffic - Increasing web traffic, Web traffic - Traffic overload, Web traffic - Denial of service attacks, Web traffic - Sudden popularity, Web traffic - Top web sites

Read more here: » Web traffic: Encyclopedia II - Web traffic - Measuring web traffic