Who is really using the net?

[ruggie_uk]

Just thought this would interest you all. This is the top ten sites visited according to YHGFL(Ours and many others ISP)

1 Google
2 Google
3 www.microsoft.com
4 TES - Teaching jobs, resources & ideas from the Times Educational Supplement
5 Website of the UK government : Directgov
6 Jobscentres.co.uk - Recruit Resources and Information. This website is for sale!
7 Sophos - anti-virus and anti-spam software for businesses
8 EduGeek.net
9 Yahoo! UK & Ireland
10 BBC - Homepage

[Michael]

Edugeek gets more hits than the BBC and Yahoo? I highly doubt it somehow (no disrespect to Edugeek). I'm surprised Sophos is in there too.

[ruggie_uk]

I expected sophos. As an LEA we all use it so every pc and laptop auto updates from there.

[Michael]

Surely your workstations (within your network) update from a server within your network? And laptops update (more than likely) from a LA hosted server and not Sophos directly.

Sophos would have absolutely huge bandwidth costs if everyone updated from their servers.

In Birmingham for example, they have a central Sophos server which updates a server within every school LAN. These servers then supply updates to workstations within each school LAN.
For laptops used at home, Birmingham provide a server for updating laptops directly over the web.

In practice, it means that Birmingham LA only download updates from Sophos once then pass on updates to schools.

[ruggie_uk]

There is now a central server as of the end of March, but before that it was a direct connection to sophos.
Of course in-house we had an enterprise server but every school is not set up like that.

[ICT_GUY]

Our top ten is highly dubious, due to the fact that all of the kids go through a home built squid proxy, then onto a "RM smart" (read dumb) Cache.

My browsing does not.

[kerrymoralee9280]

Hitwise UK - Top 20 Websites - March, 2008

Edugeek gets more hits than the BBC and Yahoo?

That link tells us otherwise.

[Elky]

Hitwise UK - Top 20 Websites - March, 2008



That link tells us otherwise.

Isnt that link a general top 20? I think the OP was talking about their local education authority

[kerrymoralee9280]

@Elky: My bad, school boy error, chalk one on the board - I'll buy the bacon sarnies on Friday.

@Everyone: To save my own embarrasment at being a blind idiot, please ignore my other post. In fact, just ignore everything I say - It'll be for the best!

[Elky]

I'll buy the bacon sarnies on Friday.

Now thats a cracking idea! Tommy K in mine please

[gaz350]

here is our top 20 since Jan 1st

1.  	au.download.windowsupdate.com	137351
2.  	images.google.com	48226
3.  	images.google.co.uk	41519
4.  	www.bbc.co.uk	40402
5.  	securityresponse.symantec.com	32896
6.  	www.google.com	30793
7.  	liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com 27011
8.  	update.gfi.com	25344
9.  	www.skysports.com	20133
10.  	www.google.co.uk	18841
11.  	www.mymaths.co.uk	18550
12.  	www.apple.com	17223
13.  	images.apple.com
14.  	www.washingtonpost.com
15.  	news.bbc.co.uk	11968
16.  	ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net	11729
17.  	www.macromedia.com	11098
18.  	en.wikipedia.org	9929
19.  	maps.google.com	8466
20.  	www.wired.com	7903

windowsupdate is easy to explain seems 90% of our laptops decided it was good time to ignore our GPO for wsus.
symantec surprised me though as we should only have 3 Parent servers for updates.

[SYNACK]

1 shttp.msg.yahoo.com
2 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
3 video.google.com
4 img.youtube.com
5 adserver.adtech.de
6 partner.googleadservices.com
7 Miniclip Games - Play Free Games
8 tbn0.google.com
9 ad.doubleclick.net
10 nz.f960.mail.yahoo.com
11 ad.uk.doubleclick.net
12 ads.miniclip.com
13 geo.yahoo.com
14 secure-nz.imrworldwide.com
15 Google

You can see how much actual work gets done here, and only the teachers are allowed on youtube by the filter. Oh and before anyone asks Miniclip was enabled because of staff moaning directly to the principal and a subsequent directive from him.