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Web Traffic Analysis & Modeling | Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research

Written by Brandon Klein | Dec 16, 2013 3:05:57 PM

We study the structure and dynamics of Web traffic networks based on data from HTTP requests made by users at Indiana University. Gathering anonymized requests directly from the network rather than relying on server logs and browser instrumentation allows us to examine large volumes of traffic data while minimizing biases associated with other data sources. It also gives us valuable referrer information that we can use to reconstruct the subset of the Web graph actually traversed by users.