On the universality of rank distributions of website popularity

DOI10.1016/J.COMNET.2005.07.009MaRDI QIDQ2507271zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sergei Krashakov, Anton B. Teslyuk, L. Shchur

Publication date 10 October 2006

Published in Computer Networks (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0404010

zbMATH Keywords

Zipf lawinternetrank distributionweb-traffic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Network design and communication in computer systems (68M10)

Abstract: We present an extensive analysis of long-term statistics of the queries to websites using logs collected on several web caches in Russian academic networks and on US IRCache caches. We check the sensitivity of the statistics to several parameters: (1) duration of data collection, (2) geographical location of the cache server collecting data, and (3) the year of data collection. We propose a two-parameter modification of the Zipf law and interpret the parameters. We find that the rank distribution of websites is stable when approximated by the modified Zipf law. We suggest that website popularity may be a universal property of Internet.

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