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BSD Certification Group Newsletter
January 2006


Contents

1 BSD Usage Survey Results now Available in mx-mx

The Mexican Spanish translation team has completed their translation of the BSD Usage Survey results. The mx-mx PDF is available for download from
http://www.bsdcertification.org/downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_es_mx.pdf.

2 UKUUG Spring Conference 2006

Dru Lavigne will be providing a keynote as well as a talk on BSD Certification at this year's LISA in Durham, England in March. The schedule and registration details for the conference have not been posted yet so look for more details in the next edition of the newsletter.

3 BSDCG Meeting at ShmooCon

Six Group members met in person during ShmooCon in Washington, D.C. on January 14. They discussed BSDCG branding and logos, BSD advocacy website ideas, raising funds, and other miscellaneous topics.

4 Mailing Lists

The BSD Certification Group mailing list currently has 822 subscribers. And the announcements list has 130 subscribers.

If you are not on the announcements list, please sign up at
http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert-announce/. It is a closed list for announcements regarding the The BSD Certification Group.

The general discussion list is at http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/bsdcert/.

5 Website Statistics Report and Analysis

By Patrick Tracanelli

In December, we had 4830 different visitors, which is a lot lower (around 45%) than October and (around 11%) than November. In the first months of 2005, we had an average of visitors which used to count around 3000 and 3600. In August, September, and October, this average increased a lot, and now since November the average is back to approximately 4800-5900 visitors.

It averaged in December around 142 visitors a day, and about 25 Mbytes of data transferred in a daily basis (our record, from July 2005 is approximately 220 Mb).

On December 12 and 13, we reached the month's top access, counting 310 and 270 visitors, respectively, and 14008 Kbytes transferred.

Usually our main access period is between 10:00 and 18:00 hours. In December, this scene changed a little bit, the main access period is now between 12:00 and 19:00 hours. This seven-hour range was responsible for 59% of all our visits in December.

In September 2005, we had the second Survey released, and it is still a well accessed URL in October, November and December. The BSD Associate PDF release from October also counts up on the most accessed URLs in December, including direct access from outside websites. But this month, the most accessed URL was the root URL, as it is usually the case in the last months.

The top 10 accessed pages are:

1  22.33%  /

2  5.00%  /error.html

3  3.24%  /robots.txt

4  0.45%  /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf

5  0.39%  /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf

6  0.29%  /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf

7  0.22%  /downloads/sponsorship.pdf

8  0.19%  /downloads/brochure8.pdf

9  0.18%  /downloads/sr1_links.pdf

10 0.16%  /downloads/20051027_BSDA_command_reference_en-en.pdf

Top 5 URL by Kbytes

For December, the top URLs regarding data transfer rate are mostly related to the Usage Survey and the BSD Associate exam document, which, together with the Road MAP are the most downloaded files.

#       KBytes  URL

1       83417   /downloads/pr_20051005_certreq_bsda_en_en.pdf

2       66301   /

3       64099   /downloads/sr1_links.pdf

4       44687   /downloads/BSDCertificationRoadmap.pdf

5       41022   /downloads/pr_20051031_usage_survey_en_en.pdf

Top 5 Entry Pages

In December, the root website is again the main entry page, followed by the error pages and files to be downloaded, especially the Usage Survey.

#       Hits    URL

1       10552   /

2       2444    /error.html

3       44      /downloads/pr_20050912_usage_survey_en_en.html

4       29      /downloads/NewsMay05Rev7.html

5       14      /downloads/pr-jta-20050720.html

Top Referrals

Our top referrers are a set of websites which usually show up as the top referrers for the previous months. The well known Chinese blog site, http://blog.china-pub.com is the number one page which attracted people to our website in December. Again the same site is also the second, and the third and fourth places are also from China, specifically FreeBSDChina.org. There are three consecutive months that Chinese websites are among the top referrals for BSDCG. This month they are the top. Following the Chinese websites we have two other websites known to refer to us a lot, Richard's Tao Security and the BSD section at Slashdot. And a new one, FreeBSD Diary.

#       Hits    Referrer

1       2031    http://blog.china-pub.com/more.asp

2       1801    http://blog.china-pub.com/blog.asp

3       1013    http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/viewtopic.php

4       454     http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_27101.html

5       167     http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/05/09/18/1743239.shtml

6       149     http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_26680.html

7       148     http://www.freebsdchina.org/forum/topic_26414.html

9       128     http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_taosecur...

9       128     http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2005_11_01_taosecur...

10      121     http://www.freebsddiary.org/

About Browsers / User Agents

Just like on the last months, the Mozilla family of web browsers are still the most used navigation applications that people use to visit us, which count over 54% of total visits. Most visits of Mozilla Family browser are from Microsoft Windows platforms using Firefox. The second most usual combination is Mac OS X with Firefox/Mozilla, the third is FreeBSD with Firefox and FreeBSD with Mozilla. Later, we get Linux with Firefox/Mozilla, and everything else are about the same on usage compared to each other.

Microsoft Internet Explorer on both Microsoft Windows (31%) and Mac OS X (9%) represent approximately 40% of our visitors browser application.

Google Bot and MSN Bot are usually getting to our website. It is true for a number of other spiders. The fetch(1) application, "fetch libfetch/2.0" which became usual at our website in the last two months is now a common issued application, it counted 4186 hits this month. No video games or refrigerators have reached us in December as it happened before, and the mobile telephones hits lowered from 130 in November to 46 in December - 20 of those, from a Treo telephone (again, probably the same user person, always).

Geo (countries) Statistics on Visitors

Thirty-seven percent of our visits were from the US, while about 19% could not be resolved. Among those resolved, Poland, Brazil and Canada are in the top listing of countries which visits us most often. All countries which do not natively speak English. Here you can follow the top thirty countries/regions which visited us in December.

#       Hits    Country/Location

1       12988    Unresolved/Unknown

2       12454    Network

3       6171    US Commercial

4       2333    Poland

5       1464     Brazil

6       1263     Canada

7       1258     Mexico

8       1243     Germany

9       876     Japan

10      631     Italy

11      491     Russian Federation

12      449     France

13      425     Netherlands

14      294     United Kingdom

15      268     US Educational

16      267     Romania

17      243     Non-Profit Organization

18      238     Australia

19      234     Switzerland

20      228     US Government

21      202     Sweden

22      164      India

23      163      Lithuania

24      160      Taiwan

25      141      Greece

26      140      Colombia

27      127      South Africa

28      123      Czech Republic

29      123      Thailand

30      123      Ukraine

Search expressions

Ninety-four percent of the searches which lead to BSDCG's website are made on Google. The other 6% is shared among MSN, Yahoo and Altavista, with some minor (fewer than 0.2%) for Lycos. The top ten strings when people searched the Web in December are:

#       Hits    Search Expression

1       38      FreeBSD Certification

2       23      bsdcertification

3       11      BSD Certification Group

4       11      BSD certification

5       9       BSD certifications

6       9       BSDCert

7       8       FreeBSD Cert

8       4       The BSD Certification Group

9       4       The BSD Certification Group Inc.

10      4       bsd

6 About this Newsletter

The BSD Certification Group newsletter is published every month, near the middle of the month.

Sorry that the newsletter was delayed this month - several members of the BSDCG spent January 13-15 at ShmooCon.

Thank you to the contributors to this newsletter: Dru Lavigne and Patrick Tracanelli. The editor is Jeremy C. Reed.

If you have any news items related to the BSD Certification, please let us know by submitting via the contact form on the website or by sending an email to newsletter@BSDCertificationGroup.org. Or if you would like to volunteer for the translation team please send a note with the subject ``translation'' on the website's contact form.

Jeremy C. Reed 2006-01-18




























































































































































































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