On the universality of rank distributions of website popularity
Networking and Internet Architecture
2007-05-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics
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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@article{arxiv.cs/0404010,
title = {On the universality of rank distributions of website popularity},
author = {Serge A. Krashakov and Anton B. Teslyuk and Lev N. Shchur},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0404010},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages with 5 figures, IEEEtran.cls, paper substantially rewritten, new figure and tables added