traffic-measurement

can we write a program to measure how much traffic any website has like Alexa does?

Can we write a program to measure how much traffic any website has like Alexa or ComScore does? Do we need to be in the middle of an internet backbone or have access to such traffic data? can we write any program to measure it just using a consumer-level internet connection? ...

Is there a way to check if a browser has the Alexa toolbar installed?

Is there a way to check if a browser of a visitor has the Alexa toolbar installed? This might probably be done via JavaScript. Doing this would give us the possibility to somewhat compensate for the bias of the Alexa rating of a site. See e.g. Alexa Toolbar and the Problem of Experiment Design Especially outside of the USA the Alexa to...

Traffic monitoring tools for VMWare Server?

We want to monitor traffic usage for each of our virtual machines - we need to generate a monthly traffic report (in terms of bytes, for billing purposes). How can we do this? Our platform is VMWare Server 2, using bridged interfaces on Windows Server 2003 thanks, ashley ...

How to estimate the real amount of internet users who visits concrete site?

Using Alexa.com I can find out that 0.05 % of all internet users visit some site, but how many people equals that 0.05% ? Is there any facts like: in US 1% from Alexa statistics is nearly equals 15 mln of people, and in France 1% is about 3 mln of people, for example? ...

How to monitor traffic of ruby on rails website?

I have a ruby on rails application and it would be nice to see how many hits I get per hour. Is there some simple free software to do this or do I have to develop a custom solution? Thanks! ...

Change alexa tracking from artcrew.ro to www.artcrew.ro

my website has a redirect from artcrew.ro to www.artcrew.ro but for some reason, alexa gets only the inbound links from the one without www in front, on the one with www in front i have over 2000 inbound links but on the one without www i have only 10. is there any way i could make alexa see the other inbound links? that would be grate. ...

real time network usage statistics monitoring/capture?

Hi, I would appreciate any advice from experience from the community regarding the following challenge I've given myself - i.e. any pointers re best approach / direction here? Requirements Allow collection / real-time-monitoring of network usage from a users Windows PC to a specific set of IP addresses (or DNS names), on a per applic...

socket connection bandwith limiting / traffic shaping with ActionScript

Does anyone know of a way to monitor and/or limit bandwidth usage for a given socket connection in ActionScript 3? I have an Adobe AIR app from which I need to upload large streams of data. However, due to bandwidth restrictions I want my users to be able to designate how much upstream bandwidth the application can use. Any ideas? ...

Discriminators for using in flow-based classification

I need to classify TCP traffic base on video and non-video. So i need to find characteristics of each flow. My classification is Flow-based and one of my variables is incoming packet length. but it is not accurate as P(video|1200Bytes)= 0.04 P(non-Video|1200Bytes) = 0.22 I need some help to find some variables, at least two more to d...

What apache2 module to use for traffic limiting?

I'm looking for a module for Apache2 which can limit bandwidth for a given period after a certain amount of traffic has passed. Does anybody know of one? The system is Debian (Lenny). I already looked into: - mod_cband : old, buggy, not being developed anymore - mod_bw : Only for bandwidth throtteling - mod_throttle : was promising, bu...

How to measure how much traffic a server could potentially handle?

Are there any tools that would enable me to load-test my server and tell me how much traffic it could roughly handle? By traffic I mean how many requests per second it can consistently serve without timing out. I realize that every server is different, and so is every application that runs on that server. That's why I thought this ro...