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{multi-excerpt:name=UseofBrowsers}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.

While we cannot currently identify and exclude many web crawler and similar hits, detailed examination of addresses and patterns of use suggest that the bulk of use reported below 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.

h2. 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 visitors to the EVS family of browsers has averaged between 5,000 and 6,000 per month over the past year, generating a total number of visits of between 13,000 and 17,000 per month.

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*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) |
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h2. Browser Users

The EVS browsers see a large volume of usage each month, therefore only one month was chosen for analysis. The data below is from JuneDecember 2011, the last full month for which we have data. It shows an overall view of which domains hit us most heavily, and then breaks down each domain by top users. All browsers are put together for this analysis as they all use the same API for drawing data and have a similar user base.

h3. Overall Use

The amount of bandwidth used bywas eachdivided ofinto fivefour (54) domains,major plusgroups: aGovernment substantial population for whom no domain was discovered, was totaled.gov users, private .com and compared.net  The domain that saw the greatest use of the browsers was the .net domain, which was surprising at first but not so much on reflection. The heaviest .net users were researched and discovered to be blacklisted. They were likely bots that were trolling for email addresses. Therefore, the .net domain was not broken down any further. The other domains showed real, traceable users performing real work.users, Educational .edu institutions, and Organizations .org.  The data was analyzed and bots were discarded to avoid skewing the data.


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|| Domain || MB ||
| gov | 2605 |
| com/ net \\ | 200 |
| edu | 141 |
| org | 59 |
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h3. Users from .gov domain

The numbers below show the top non-CBIITgovernment users of the EVS browsers., Theas browsers are used extensively by CBITT internal editors and staff; those listings have been excluded, while other NCI users have not. The top CBIIT user accessed 3.8 measured by the MB of data, enoughthat to put them at number four (4) in this list if they had not been filtered outwere accessed. Agency names have been provided where they are known.

{color:#002060}{*}Top 10 non-CBIIT .gov EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)*{color}

|| Organization || MB ||
| NIH-NINR | 1 |
| NIH-NIDA | 1 |
| NIH-NICHD | 1 |
| NIH-NIAMS | 2 |
| NIH-NHGRI | 2 |
| NIH-OD | 2 |
| NIH-NHLBI | 3 |
| FDA | 32 |
| NIH-CIT | 73 |
| NIH-NCI | 2350 |

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h3. Users from .com domain

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{color:#002060}{*}Top 10 .com EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)*{color}

|| HostBusiness || MB || Business ||
| amgen.comGenentech | {align:right} 54.62 {align} | Amgen 2606 |
| nncsnjra1fw01-pat.mic.jnj.comSAIC | {align:right} 19.88 {align} | Johnson & Johnson |
| 69-165-131-236.dsl.teksavvy.com | {align:right} 14.24 {align} | --- |
| philabs.research.philips.com | {align:right} 13.59 {align} | Philips |
| mx1.wkglobal.com | {align:right} 13.34 {align} | --- |
| internet.lexis-nexis.com | {align:right} 11.82 {align} | LexisNexis |
| 71-13-78-2.static.aldl.mi.charter.com | {align:right} 9.01 {align} | --- |
| 84-55-242-40.adsl.ticino.com | {align:right} 8.37 {align} | --- |
| brca.parexel.com | {align:right} 7.74 {align} | Parexel |
| mailx2.ingenuity.com | {align:right} 7.58 {align} | Ingenuity Systems 3019 |
| Walgreens | 3518 |
| Epocrates | 6235 |
| Prevagen | 6704 |
| Booz Allen Hamilton | 6989 |
| Eli Lilly and Company | 10312 |
| Lockheed Martin | 15684 |
| Ingenuity Systems | 18469 |
| Individual ISPs | 92641 |

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h3. Users from .edu domain

The edu users were widely distributed across many American universities and a small selection of foreign institutions. The heaviest user, by a factor of 20, is the Mayo Clinic, above all for their activities in the Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN) Ontology Network Resource (PHONT). After Mayo, use patterns become flatter and less varied between institutions. It is not uncommon to see the same institution represented more than once, with queries coming from a variety of internal organizations.

{color:#002060}{*}Top 10 .edu EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)*{color}

|| HostInstitution || MB || Institution ||
| cache2b.mayo.edu | {align:right} 117.32 {align} | Mayo Clinic |
| evans036.duhs.duke.edu | {align:right} 5.52 {align} | Duke University |
| hpdcat3114ba.dhcp.hpd.nova.edu | {align:right} 3.33 {align} | Nova Southeastern University |
| med-ntfs04.bsd.uchicago.edu | {align:right} 2.75 {align} Ohio State   University Medical Center | 1 |
| University of Michigan Health System | 1 |
| University of ChicagoMinnesota |
| guest-dhcp-117.bmi.utah.edu | {align:right} 2.51 {align}  2 |
| University of UtahPittsburgh |
| inetnar10x.ft28.upmc.eduMedical Center | {align:right} 2.23 {align}  |
| University of Southern PittsburghCalifornia Medical| Center4 |
| dhcp-195-228.resnet.uab.eduVanderbilt University | {align:right} 1.63 {align} 6 |
| University of AlabamaUtah at| Birmingham7 |
| dhcp-131-216-46-75.dhcp.unlv.edu | {align:right} 1.36 {align} | University of Nevada, Las VegasColumbia University Medical Center | 8 |
| upci-opi92.hillman.upmc.edu | {align:right} 1.21 {align} | University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Mayo Clinic | 42 |
| lane-ts-dick.stanford.edu | {align:right} 1.16 {align}San Diego Supercomputer Center | Stanford53 University| |


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h3. Users from .org domain

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

{color:#002060}{*}Top 10 .org EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)*{color}

|| Host Organization|| MB || Organization ||
| mail.c-path.org | 2.48 | Critical Path Institute Gundersen Lutheran   Health System | 1 |
| mb-129-83-31-3.mitre.org | 2.37 American College of Cardiology | MITRE2 |
| vpn.nmdp.org | 2.09 | National Marrow Donor ProgramBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard | 3 |
| dhcp071038.fhcrc.org | 1.99Gynecologic Oncology Group | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center3 |
| host8.ifmc.orgSloan-Kettering | 1.894 |
| Bioanalysis IFMCInstitutes |
|- bwhmaincampuspat14U.partnersS.org |Army 1.88 | Partners Healthcare4 |
| w0045269.partners.org | 1.60 | Partners Healthcare |
| webmail.web.stjude.org | 1.12 | St Jude Children's Research Hospital |
| fx.mskcc.org | 0.99 | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
| vpn.petermac.org | 0.90 | Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre |The National Marrow Donor Program | 4 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 5 |
| RTI International | 7 |
| Partners HealthCare | 16 | 

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