WWW "versus" gopher

Jay Glicksman (jay@eit.COM)
Thu, 10 Mar 1994 21:02:32 --100

At the current rate of growth, WWW use on the Internet will pass
gopher use (in both packet count and byte count) sometime during this
current month (or next month for sure). The raw statistics are below.

For a graphic view of the relative growth of various Internet services
see

http://www.eit.com/techinfo/nsfnet/nsfnet.html

Congratulations to the WWW community for developing a service so
widely used.

Jay Glicksman

NSFNET Traffic Distribution Highlights

February 1994

Service Name Port Rank Packet Count % Pkts Rank Byte Count % Byts
============ ==== ==== ============ ====== ==== ============= ======
gopher 70 9 1472386850 2.455 6 396066059800 3.470
www 80 11 1105399700 1.843 7 347503518500 3.044

January 1994

Service Name Port Rank Packet Count % Pkts Rank Byte Count % Byts
============ ==== ==== ============ ====== ==== ============= ======
gopher 70 9 1383479450 2.502 5 374680912550 3.640
www 80 11 822317950 1.487 8 269129084100 2.614

December 1993

Service Name Port Rank Packet Count % Pkts Rank Byte Count % Byts
============ ==== ==== ============ ====== ==== ============= ======
gopher 70 9 1148324150 2.191 6 309690082950 3.041
www 80 11 685153950 1.307 8 225443122450 2.213

November 1993

Service Name Port Rank Packet Count % Pkts Rank Byte Count % Byts
============ ==== ==== ============ ====== ==== ============= ======
gopher 70 8 1121316450 2.104 6 291132949450 2.902
www 80 12 512805100 0.962 8 172339899050 1.718