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The Floodgap Gopher Statistics project is an aggregation of data
from the Floodgap Public Gopher Proxy in an attempt to estimate
relative trends and continued interest in Gopherspace.
-- !!READ ME FIRST!! --
Gopher advocacy in the present day is greatly impaired by poor
assessment of community interest, both from users and wranglers.
Rather than try to quantify a total number of Gopher users, which
is impossible to do completely or accurately, the GStats project
has the following goals:
- Demonstrate that there are still people using gopher. By
plotting access and activity trends, the project can show user
interest exists and that Gopherspace is more than a 'retro fad.'
- Demonstrate that there is a significant population of gopher
users not served by their particular Web client of choice,
encouraging those browsers with Gopher support to preserve and
maintain it as a valuable feature.
- Demonstrate that a variety of hosts are accessed by the Proxy,
not just any single large Gopher portal, encouraging not only
current gopher wranglers to maintain their gopher-based services
but also encourage the creation of new servers in the ecosystem.
- Identify hosts being accessed by users that are not in the
Veronica-2 database so that they can be indexed for search.
We appreciate your comments to gopher@floodgap.com
It is strongly recommended that you read the documentation
below to properly interpret the statistics.
-- Overview (trend graph updated monthly) -- |
