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About EDIS

Contents of this document:
  • Background and History
  • Processing Summary
  • Site Statistics for December
  • Top Ten Requested Documents
  • Sites that Link to EDIS
  • Awards
  • Related Links
  • BACKGROUND

    The EDIS Web Site grew out of the award-winning FAIRS Web Site, which began life as a Web translation of the FAIRS series of CD-ROMs. Created from the database of IFAS Extension and Research publications, EDIS is the one source of the official, approved versions of IFAS publications. The EDIS Web Site also links to departmental sites and other related information and software at the University of Florida.

    PROCESSING SUMMARY


    In 1998 and 1999, IT processed 1939 documents into the EDIS database and 3171 documents into the Review Site. There are currently 5284 entries in the EDIS database. Of these, 3440 have Digital Library Numbers, indicating that they exist (or did exist) in electronic form. There are currently 3134 documents listed on the EDIS web site.

    Documents come to us from several sources. The departments of Agronomy and Family, Youth and Consumer Sciences are responsible for their own documents while IFAS Communication Services submits documents from the other academic departments within IFAS. The SWAT team is responsible for converting legacy publications into electronic format.

    In March, 1999, the department of Soil and Water Sciences also began handling their own documents. Their impact in the percentage of documents that come to us directly from the departments can be seen by looking at the charts at the right (click on the image for a larger view).

    In December, 1999, alone, the EDIS website served 39,176 individual users, transferring over 5.879 Gigabytes worth of data (go here for more interesting numbers). Just over 2% of this data was sent to users from the ufl.edu domain (the University of Florida), the rest was distributed among commercial domains, other universities, U.S. government and military domains and 112 foreign countries (see the exhaustive list here). What was everyone coming to see? Check out the Ten Most Popular Documents for December.

    SITE STATISTICS

    Web site statistics for the EDIS website for the month of December, 1999.

    General Information

    Successful file requests: 1,550,093
    Average successful file requests per day: 46,642
    Successful requests for pages: 38,937
    Average successful requests for pages per day: 1,171
    Failed requests: 415
    Distinct files requested: 32,357
    Distinct hosts served: 39,176
    Data transferred: 5.879 Gbytes
    Average data transferred per day: 181.164 Mbytes
    

    Ten Most Popular Documents

    1. Fleas, ENY-205
    2. Drying Jerky, Fact Sheet FCS 8504
    3. Botulism: It Only Takes A Taste, Fact Sheet HE-8198
    4. Organic Vegetable Gardening, Circular 375
    5. Impacts of Free-ranging Pets on Wildlife, WEC-136
    6. Alligators and Crocodiles, WEC-QRS-003
    7. Control of Bed Bugs and Blood-Sucking Conenose, ENY 227
    8. Basic Principles of Landscape Design, Circular 536
    9. Florida's Squirrels, SS-WIS-33
    10. Pillbugs, Centipedes, Millipedes And Earwigs, ENY-221
    
    

    Exhaustive List of Visitors to EDIS

    Listing domains, sorted by the amount of traffic.

    reqsts: %bytes: domain
    ------: ------: ------
    393862: 23.64%: .net (Network)
    410115: 23.59%: .com (Commercial)
    256709: 17.12%: [unresolved numerical addresses]
     81756:  7.42%: [domain not given]
    117669:  6.93%: .edu (USA Educational)
     69036:  4.84%: .us (United States)
     10000:  4.24%: .fr (France)
     23934:  1.32%: .ca (Canada)
     24515:  0.95%: .au (Australia)
     11606:  0.65%: .gov (USA Government)
     13766:  0.65%: .org (Non-Profit Making Organisations)
      5267:  0.64%: .br (Brazil)
     13514:  0.60%: .uk (United Kingdom)
      9158:  0.56%: .my (Malaysia)
      4125:  0.56%: .tr (Turkey)
      8773:  0.53%: .mil (USA Military)
      7620:  0.47%: .mx (Mexico)
      3697:  0.42%: .gr (Greece)
      6000:  0.40%: .es (Spain)
      4727:  0.33%: .ar (Argentina)
      3554:  0.31%: .pt (Portugal)
      7042:  0.26%: .nz (New Zealand)
      5281:  0.26%: .de (Germany)
      3609:  0.25%: .be (Belgium)
      3796:  0.20%: .nl (Netherlands)
      3624:  0.20%: .it (Italy)
      2812:  0.16%: .il (Israel)
      2555:  0.15%: .th (Thailand)
      3065:  0.14%: .jp (Japan)
      3212:  0.14%: .sg (Singapore)
      1150:  0.11%: .co (Colombia)
       284:  0.11%: .lt (Lithuania)
      2103:  0.11%: .se (Sweden)
      2120:  0.11%: .za (South Africa)
       317:  0.10%: .si (Slovenia)
      1273:  0.08%: .uy (Uruguay)
       788:  0.07%: .ro (Romania)
      1304:  0.06%: .ae (United Arab Emirates)
      1150:  0.06%: .no (Norway)
       632:  0.06%: .hr (Croatia)
      1103:  0.05%: .ch (Switzerland)
      1155:  0.05%: .dk (Denmark)
       947:  0.05%: .id (Indonesia)
       911:  0.05%: .cl (Chile)
      1060:  0.05%: .in (India)
      1047:  0.05%: .pe (Peru)
      1646:  0.05%: .fi (Finland)
       666:  0.05%: .ve (Venezuela)
       495:  0.04%: .kr (South Korea)
       785:  0.04%: .nc (New Caledonia (French))
       685:  0.04%: .ni (Nicaragua)
       838:  0.04%: .hk (Hong Kong)
      1054:  0.04%: .tw (Taiwan)
       880:  0.04%: .ie (Ireland)
       961:  0.03%: .sa (Saudi Arabia)
       491:  0.03%: .arpa (Old style Arpanet)
       314:  0.03%: .om (Oman)
       472:  0.03%: .hu (Hungary)
       606:  0.03%: .at (Austria)
       441:  0.03%: .cr (Costa Rica)
       571:  0.02%: .cz (Czech Republic)
       460:  0.02%: .pl (Poland)
       273:  0.02%: .gt (Guatemala)
       313:  0.02%: .yu (Yugoslavia)
       303:  0.02%: .tt (Trinidad and Tobago)
       408:  0.02%: .ee (Estonia)
       419:  0.02%: .ru (Russia)
       127:  0.02%: .kw (Kuwait)
       440:  0.02%: .jo (Jordan)
       208:  0.01%: .jm (Jamaica)
       205:  0.01%: .bg (Bulgaria)
       258:  0.01%: .lb (Lebanon)
       233:  0.01%: .do (Dominican Republic)
       160:  0.01%: .cn (China)
       407:  0.01%: .cy (Cyprus)
       160:  0.01%: [unknown domain]
       222:  0.01%: .mu (Mauritius)
       171:  0.01%: .sk (Slovak Republic)
       219:  0.01%: .ph (Philippines)
        85:  0.01%: .fj (Fiji)
       133:  0.01%: .bs (Bahamas)
       155:  0.01%: .eg (Egypt)
       178:  0.01%: .ec (Ecuador)
        96:  0.01%: .is (Iceland)
        62:  0.01%: .dm (Dominica)
        82:  0.01%: .gu (Guam (USA))
       120:  0.01%: .bm (Bermuda)
       139:  0.01%: .pk (Pakistan)
        52:       : .zm (Zambia)
       124:       : .ua (Ukraine)
       103:       : .aw (Aruba)
        47:       : .lu (Luxembourg)
        73:       : .by (Belarus)
        64:       : .ba (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
        70:       : .py (Paraguay)
        46:       : .tz (Tanzania)
        78:       : .vi (Virgin Islands (USA))
        65:       : .zw (Zimbabwe)
        31:       : .gy (Guyana)
        33:       : .sm (San Marino)
        40:       : .sv (El Salvador)
        79:       : .lv (Latvia)
        50:       : .ky (Cayman Islands)
        29:       : .sn (Senegal)
        82:       : .np (Nepal)
        18:       : .ir (Iran)
        27:       : .et (Ethiopia)
        14:       : .ag (Antigua and Barbuda)
        16:       : .ye (Yemen)
        20:       : .md (Moldavia)
        29:       : .vu (Vanuatu)
        48:       : .bn (Brunei Darussalam)
        35:       : .int (International)
        18:       : .bo (Bolivia)
        14:       : .su (Former USSR)
        14:       : .ci (Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire))
        45:       : .lk (Sri Lanka)
        18:       : .am (Armenia)
         3:       : .ai (Anguilla)
         9:       : .bw (Botswana)
         9:       : .mt (Malta)
         3:       : .sz (Swaziland)
         3:       : .ge (Georgia)
    

    SITES THAT LINK TO US

    One way to measure the usefullness and popularity of a Web Site such as EDIS are by the number of sites (currently over 5000) that maintain links to us. These sites range from the scientific and technical to home gardeners and people who have specific interests such as spiders, home canning, etc. A random sample of some of the sites that link to us is presented here.

    AWARDS

    The following awards have been presented to our Web Site.

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