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The next several sections analyze available statistics for direct use of EVS resources on EVS servers. This section covers direct use of NCI-hosted EVS terminology browsers and the LexEVS local java API that supports them. Later sections cover the LexEVS distributed (remote), LexEVS caGrid services, the term suggestion site, and ftp download services.

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The EVS browsers and LexEVS APIs at NCI are covered by the AWStats and Wusage applications, recording various statistics including number of unique visitors, visits, number of pages viewed and data volume accessed. These have been collected below to give a window into the use of the EVS services. Appendix 1 lists the usage tracking pages from which these statistics are gathered.

We are now able to identify and exclude most web crawler and similar automated hits, as well as internal use for testing and development purposes. Detailed examination of addresses and patterns of use suggest that the use reported below overwhelmingly represents real users from NCI and other organizations of interest. Analyzed below are figures for unique visitors and number of visits, as well as the volume of data communicated, which for all but ftp sites reflects high volumes of traffic in mostly compact units of terminology concept data.

Statistical Overview

The EVS browsers run off the LexEVS local API, and provide the highest number of direct users of EVS terminology servers. The lowest, but most informative, numbers are for unique visitors and number of visits. The number of unique visitors to the EVS family of browsers has averaged around 3,500 per month over the past year, generating a total of more than 6,000 visits per month.

Unique visitors to EVS browsers, per month
Chart showing unique visitors to EVS browsers per month

Key

Abbreviation

Site

NCITerms

NCI Term Browser (many terminologies, value sets and mappings)

NCIt

NCI Thesaurus Browser (now one face of NCITerms, counted separately)

NCIm

NCI Metathesaurus Browser (separate app, searchable from NCITerms)

TermForm

EVS Term Suggestion site (covered later)

 

Number of visits to EVS browsers, per month 
Chart showing number of visits to EVS browsers per month

Browser Users

The data below is from January 2015 through May 2015. It shows an overall view of which domains hit EVS browsers most heavily, and then breaks down each domain by top users. All browsers are put together for this analysis.

Overall Use

The amount of bandwidth used was divided into four (4) major groups: Government .gov users, private .com and .net users, Educational .edu institutions, and Organizations .org. The data was analyzed and bots were discarded to avoid skewing the data.

Data accessed (MB) from EVS browsers by domain

Domain

MB

com

14364

gov

8249

edu

2893

org

596

Data accessed (MB) from EVS browsers by domain
Chart showing data access(MB) from EVS browsers by domain

Users from .gov domain

The numbers below show the top government users of the EVS browsers, as measured by the MB of data that were accessed. Agency names have been provided where they are known. The main users are internal to NCI and NIH, which is not surprising, but we have substantial FDA usage as well.

Top .gov EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)

Organization

MB

NIH-NCI
6469
National Institutes of Health
1212
FDA
231
National Library of Medicine130
Illinois Century Network
78
NIH-NCCAM26
NIH-OD, Office of Research Services21
Michigan State Government
21
King County Gov
13
USDA Office of Operations
9

Top .gov EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)
chart showing data access by dot gov EVS browser users

Users from .com domain

We combined the .net and .com users into one group as both contained a number of private corporations and individual users from a wide variety of internet service providers (ISPs). Business names have been provided where known. The graph below does not show ISPs as they are not interpretable and dwarf the next largest groups.

Top .com EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)

65

Business

MB

PSINet, Inc577
Lockheed Martin433
Deloitte Services LP241
Ingenuity Systems182
GlaxoSmithKline126

Johnson & Johnson

109
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
91

Genentech

83

McKesson

82
Lockheed Martin545
SAIC213
IBM Rochester207
SAP America Inc.201
IBM153
TekTonic149
Ingenuity Systems147
IBM Watson Research Center145
GlaxoSmithKline112
Johnson & Johnson71

Roche

Top .com EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)
chart showing data access by dot com EVS browser users

Users from .edu domain

The edu users were widely distributed across many American universities and a small selection of foreign institutions.

Top .edu EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)

53

Institution

MB

Mayo Clinic17111392
University of Texas Michigan Health Science CenterSystem781

University of Geneva

304

University of Muenster

187

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

174

Vanderbilt University

137

University of New Mexico Health Science Center

78
Universite Bordeaux Segalen
55
Johns Hopkins Medicine54
157
Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA)79
George Mason University75
University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center70
University of Geneva65
University of California, San Diego57
Colorado Community College System56
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center50
University of Pittsburgh50

Washington University in St. Louis

Top .edu EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)
chart showing data access by dot edu EVS browser users

Users from .org domain

Like the .edu users, the .org users were widely distributed across a variety of organizations.

Top .org EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)

17

Organization

MB

The National Marrow Donor Program

542
Translational Genomics Research Institute361
Sloan-Kettering325
M.D Anderson Cancer Center118
Sloan-Kettering188
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center95
The University Of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center60
The National Marrow Donor Program33
RTI International26
Roswell Park Cancer Institute21
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center115

The Jackson Laboratory

88

Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre

52

Partners HealthCare

27

Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

17
20
Southwestern Medical Center19
Marshfield Clinic18
Children's Oncology Group16

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan

Top .org EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)
chart showing data access by dot org EVS browser users

Usage Patterns of the Three EVS Browsers

The three browsers offered by EVS are

NCITermsNCI Term Browser: Access to all terminologies, value sets and mappings.
NCItNCI Thesaurus Browser: Now just one face of NCITerms, but the most used and counted separately.
NCImNCI Metathesaurus Browser: A separate application, searchable from NCITerms.

broswer usage pie chart

Nearly 75% of all use goes to the NCIt browser, including almost all use from the educational domain and two thirds of government use.  By contrast, half of commercial domain use goes to NCI Terms, while .org use is almost evenly split between all three browsers.

dot com browser usage pie chart  dot edu browser usage pie chart dot gov browser usage pie chart dot org browser usage pie chart

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