WebWatch Trawl of UK University Entry Pages (1)
The WebWatch project carried out a trawl of UK University entry points on 24 October 1997.
The trawl was repeated in 31 July 1998.
The most popular web server was Apache. This has grown in popularity, with a decline in the CERN, NCSA and other smaller servers.
Microsoft's IIS server has also grown in popularity, perhaps indicating growth in use of Windows NT.
The file size of HTML resource(s) (including frame sets) and images (but excluding background images) was analysed.
The largest page was 193Kb.
The largest pages contained animated GIF images.
Q. What do you use in your institution?
Q. How large is your institutional entry page?
Q. Where would you like to be on the diagram?