Fiscal Year Reports:
The pages below are the results of running analysis tools on our web server logs. Note that hits to our web server from within the bureau have been excluded from the analysis.
| Metrics | Distinct Visitors |
Requests for Webpages |
Download Volume |
FTP Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY 2006 | 193,412 | 4,174,792 | 1.446 TB | |
| FY 2007 | 246,865 | 5,175,163 | 5.134 TB | |
| FY 2008 | 298,712 | 7,021,188 | 4.933 TB | |
| FY 2009 | 324,388 | 6,406,473 | 5.271 TB | |
| FY 2010 | 362,647 | 3,556,826 | 4.612 TB | |
| FY 2011 | 408,709 | 4,713,207 | 3.942 TB | |
| FY 2012 | 470,175 | 7,000,903 | 3.406 TB | 62,889 files |
| FY 2013 | 831,475 | 8,186,965 | 3.638 TB | 30,906 files |
| FY 2014 | 996,901 | 7,205,697 | 3.969 TB | 32,089 files |
| FY 2015 | 861,080 | 7,503,418 | 4.999 TB | disabled FTP |
| FY 2016 | 808,563 | 7,953,732 | 19.445 TB | disabled FTP |
| FY 2017 | 885,883 | 7,773,257 | 22.414 TB | disabled FTP |
| FY 2018 | 810,538 | 11,358,418 | 22.779 TB | |
| FY 2019 | 647,584 | 8,431,457 | 34.280 TB | (FY 18 proxied the map server) |
| - map server | 10,954 | 563,109 | 20.47 GB | (Proxy of map server ended early-FY19) |
| FY 2020 | 610,131 | 5,295,270 | 37.535 TB | |
| - map server | 16,339 | 1,546,055 | 44.79 GB | |
| FY 2021 | 646,073 | 4,384,126 | 29.052 TB | |
| - map server | 17,966 | 1,846,275 | 8.4 GB | |
| FY 2022 | 709,219 | 4,282,350 | 33.489 TB | (Apache through 4/19/22, then migrated to IIS) |
| - map server | 16,873 | 3,871,145 | 80.35 GB | |
| - photo archive | 5,818 | 1,441,248 | 36 GB | |
| FY 2023 | 535,016 | 5,509,460 | 2424.08 GB | No granular statistics available |
| - map server | 17,397 | 2,535,774 | 133.63 GB | |
| - photo archive | 11,882 | 1,679,974 | 62.91 GB | |
| - nmtso | 488 | 2,117 | -not recorded- | |
| FY 2024 | 802,273 | 34,210,504 | 13.177 TB | Ingested IIS serverlogs using Analog 6.0 |
| - map server | 45,428 | 6,304,221* | 224.94 GB | *Results are based on total requests, keep in mind that there may be multiple requests per page load. |
| - photo archive | 46,260 | 4,680,883* | 236.55 GB | |
| - NMTSO | 6,484 | 514,551* | 1.36 GB |
Notes:
Server log metrics are valuable for understanding overall usage trends, it's important to remember that the data may include webcrawlers, scrapers etc. which can inflate visitor counts. Use these metrics as a general guide, but consider them alongside other analytics for a more accurate picture.
Probably the two most useful metrics are volume of data transferred and the number of distinct hosts served (number of unique computer IP addresses that accessed our site at some point over the fiscal year).
The directory reports can give you an idea of the relative interest between pages, but are by no means a precise metric of public interest in our site. The 'Requests for Pages' count is more useful than the 'Requests' count because any given web page will likely require multiple requests for the individual components of a web page (like images and banner elements). 'Pages' in the statistics include: web pages, PDFs, MS Word documents, PowerPoints, etc. 'Bytes' represents the number of bytes served. Keep in mind that just moving the decimal point when converting from bytes to MB is incorrect. The '%bytes' column represents the percentage of bytes transferred relative to the total bytes transferred.
If there is interest in the number of downloads of a particular file (accepting the inherent uncertainty of that number), that can be easily calculated but was not included in these reports for brevity.
Some of the earlier statistics did not include Open-file Reports downloaded via FTP. FTP downloads were discontinued after 11-30-2013.
FY 2022 statistics for download volume were extrapolated from 294 days of Apache logs. This metric wasn't initially captured after migration to IIS on 2/20/2022.
Real-time Reports:
We also have a real-time website monitoring tool called Matomo. To see how visitors are using our site, open this page:
https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/matomo
username: bureaustaff (you can copy these and paste them into the login page)
password: View_WebsiteStats!
The map server also has an an analysis tool that shows a one-year rolling summary: http://nmbg-web1.nmbg.nmt.edu/