1997 August: referer stats searchengine top 100 hit parade

Building up our web presence, the fast indexing search engines Altavista (1997 indexing in 2 days) and Infossek (1997 indexing in less than 1 hour) dominate our referer log files

Total referers found in referer log files from all our own domains, and design and seminar customers hosted on our server. This only counts visitors coming from a link or a search engine. This does not count repeated visitors from bockmarks and visitors typing direct the URL (from newspaper or so)4969 2 visitors per pixel
1www.infoseek.com1290
2www.altavista.digital.com785
3av.yahoo.com404
4altavista.digital.com333
5www.excite.com195
6guide-p.infoseek.com193
7www.hotbot.com157
8av.yahoo.de147
9www.fireball.de137
10altavista.telia.com130
11www.search.com114
12netfind.aol.com89
13www.lycos.com75
14205.233.201.11751
15inls.ucsd.edu48
16www.metacrawler.com43
17newsgroups37
18home.interstat.net36
19www.lycos.de31
20other referers31
21www.yahoo.com29
22www.altavista.telia.com25
23www.paradigm4.com.au23
24lycospro.lycos.com22
25www.euroseek.net21
26guide.infoseek.com21
27www2.infoseek.com20
28www.mckinley.com19
29www.energie.ch18
30i-s-t.com15
31search.yahoo.com14
32www.geocities.com13
33www3.infoseek.com12
34ourworld.compuserve.com11
35av.yahoo.co.uk11
36com.simplenet.com11
37search.dogpile.com10
38www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au10
39search2.metacrawler.com9
40www.surfpoint.com8
41search.com8
42www.greenpeace.org8
43www-csi.lycos.com8
44www.eurobanner.com7
45search1.metacrawler.com7
46www.sear.ch6
47www.solarserver.de6
48www.uni-muenster.de6
49www.inference.com6
50av.yahoo.fr6
51www.i-s-t.com6
52wagner.cs.colostate.edu:19696
53search3.metacrawler.com5
54guide-p.infoseek.com:805
55www.slip.net5
56search.looksmart.com:87875
57xp10.dejanews.com4
58www.anzwers.com.au4
59ie4.altavista.digital.com4
60euroseek.net4
61207.82.250.2514
62www.mediaport.org4
63www.iijnet.or.jp4
64www.chez.com4
65www-german.lycos.com4
66www.kolibri.de4
67www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca3
68werbung.germany.net3
69gem.crest.org3
70www-es.lycos.com3
71www.goo.ne.jp3
72www.cyber411.com3
73members.aol.com3
74www-blockbuster.lycos.com3
75sear.ch3
76www.itwp.com3
77home.kamp.net3
78news.hotbot.com3
79www.comlink.apc.org3
80www.loop.com3
81www.esc-gmbh.de2
82how.tin.it2
83www.x07.com2
84www.winternet.com2
85www.northernwebs.com2
86www.webnav.com2
87www.eliki.com2
88www.anysearch.com2
89WWW.ALTAVISTA.DIGITAL.COM2
90www-spry.lycos.com2
91magellan.mckinley.com2
92www.excite.de2
93www.cameronlaw.com2
94206.246.190.1542
95hotbot.com2
96www.netspace1.com2
97www.isleuth.com2
98194.224.80.352
99www.sandrine.com2
100..........other 82 referers together101



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1997 July: referers stat searchengine top 100 hit parade

The one and only month in the 20th century, where the search engine Excite was under our top 3 referers. Excite remains later also important, but never again achieved nearly 8%.
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1997: Successfull first year of internet presence

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1997 September: new submit to search engines strategy

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