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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.

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.

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.

Unique visitors to EVS browsers, per month

Key:
NCITermsNCI 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)
TermFormEVS Term Suggestion site (covered later)

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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 June 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.

Overall Use

The amount of bandwidth used by each of five (5) domains, plus a substantial population for whom no domain was discovered, was totaled and compared. 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.

Data accessed (MB) from EVS browsers by domain

Domain

MB

gov

420.81

com

326.22

edu

161.50

org

33.74

net

629.95

unknown

553.30


Data accessed (MB) from EVS browsers by domain
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Users from .gov domain

The numbers below show the top non-CBIIT users of the EVS browsers. The 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 MB of data, enough to put them at number four (4) in this list if they had not been filtered out. Agency names have been provided where they are known.

Top 10 non-CBIIT .gov EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)

Host

MB

Agency

fda-hfw-00.fda.gov

27.81

Food and Drug Administration

icicc.nci.nih.gov

6.31

NCI OCE

niaid-il-235-5.niaid.nih.gov

4.87

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

hg-01741555-lwx.nhgri.nih.gov

1.27

National Human Genome Research Institute

gc-l01643226.nhlbi.nih.gov

0.93

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

cc1bteb3c01w07.cc.nih.gov

0.90

NIH Clinical Center

citdecaleggeclt.cit.nih.gov

0.90

Center for Information Technology

dkd2r683wlp2.niddk.nih.gov

0.76

National Institute Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

dohpxy11.nyc.gov

0.71

New York City

rok-srajguru1-7.nih.gov

0.71

 

Top 10 non-CBIIT .gov EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)
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Users from .com domain

Unlike the .net domain, there were a number of clearly genuine health industry users hitting the EVS browsers from the .com domain. Our top two users were Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. Business names have been provided where known.

Top 10 .com EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)

Host

MB

Business

amgen.com

54.62

Amgen

nncsnjra1fw01-pat.mic.jnj.com

19.88

Johnson & Johnson

69-165-131-236.dsl.teksavvy.com

14.24

 

philabs.research.philips.com

13.59

Philips

mx1.wkglobal.com

13.34

 

internet.lexis-nexis.com

11.82

LexisNexix

71-13-78-2.static.aldl.mi.charter.com

9.01

 

84-55-242-40.adsl.ticino.com

8.37

 

brca.parexel.com

7.74

Parexel

mailx2.ingenuity.com

7.58

Ingenuity Systems

Top 10 .com EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)
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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, was a process based out of the Mayo Clinic. We have queried them to discover the nature of this process – the profile and the name of the process suggesting they are caching a large part of our browser. Once you get past Mayo, the usage becomes 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 colleges.

Top 10 .edu EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)

Host

MB

Institution

cache2b.mayo.edu

117.32

Mayo Clinic

evans036.duhs.duke.edu

5.52

Duke University

hpdcat3114ba.dhcp.hpd.nova.edu

3.33

Nova Southeastern University

med-ntfs04.bsd.uchicago.edu

2.75

University of Chicago

guest-dhcp-117.bmi.utah.edu

2.51

University of Utah

inetnar10x.ft28.upmc.edu

2.23

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

dhcp-195-228.resnet.uab.edu

1.63

University of Alabama at Birmingham

dhcp-131-216-46-75.dhcp.unlv.edu

1.36

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

upci-opi92.hillman.upmc.edu

1.21

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

lane-ts-dick.stanford.edu

1.16

Stanford University

Top 10 .edu EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB) [Mayo truncated]
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Users from .org domain

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

Top 10 .org EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)

Host

MB

Organization

mail.c-path.org

2.48

Critical Path Institute

mb-129-83-31-3.mitre.org

2.37

MITRE

vpn.nmdp.org

2.09

National Marrow Donor Program

dhcp071038.fhcrc.org

1.99

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

host8.ifmc.org

1.89

IFMC

bwhmaincampuspat14.partners.org

1.88

Partners Healthcare

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 MacCullum Cancer Center

Top 10 .org EVS browser users: Data accessed (MB)
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