FLYBASE SERVICE STATISTICS
For server: mercury.ebi.ac.uk
For time period Oct1995 TO Aug1996

Transactions During Summary Period             216524
Average Monthly Transactions                    19684
(Transaction includes file and file subrange fetches, and index searches.)



Top 10 Most Popular Sections

                                            Percent  of
      Section                 Transactions  Transactions
----------------------------  ------------  ------------
                       genes         49543     22.88
                        maps         43688     20.18
                        refs         29694     13.71
                      stocks         25538     11.79
                      people         19452      8.98
                      images          8717      4.03
                 aberrations          6945      3.21
                        news          6775      3.13
                      clones          4300      1.99
                        docs          2999      1.39



 Monthly Transaction Statistics

                 Number Of     Percent Of
          Month  Transactions  Transactions
---------------  ------------  ------------
Oct1995                  7529       3.48
Nov1995                  7383       3.41
Dec1995                 11563       5.34
Jan1996                 23519      10.86
Feb1996                 24682      11.40
Mar1996                 22969      10.61
Apr1996                 23458      10.83
May1996                 34019      15.71
Jun1996                 21374       9.87
Jul1996                 22007      10.16
Aug1996                 18021       8.32



Transaction Statistics by protocol

                 Number Of     Percent Of
 Protocol        Transactions  Transactions
---------------  ------------  ------------
HTTP                   198853      91.84
Gopher                  17671       8.16



Total Transfer Amount By Domain

                                                   Percent of
         Domain Name                Transactions  Transactions
----------------------------------- ------------  ------------
                               U.K.        82506     38.10
                         unresolved        44337     20.48
                            Germany        28442     13.14
                     US Educational        14054      6.49
               Other western Europe        12958      5.98
                             France         8924      4.12
              Finland/Sweden/Norway         7179      3.32
                              Spain         5279      2.44
                      US Commercial         3951      1.82
                      Organizations         2109      0.97
             Israel and Middle East         1756      0.81
                other North America         1309      0.60
                      US Government         1249      0.58
                      Other domains          759      0.35
                              Japan          595      0.27
              Australia/New Zealand          546      0.25
               Eastern Europe & FSU          220      0.10
                              India          218      0.10
                      South America           81      0.04
                               Asia           52      0.02