On 25 November 1998, the WebWatch robot crawled the entry points for UK academic Web sites. This report is an analysis of the findings. This is the third Web crawl of the UK HEI entry points and completes a series of three snapshots of this community. The input file of URLs obtained from NISS for the previous crawl was used. Size Metrics Figure 1 shows a histogram of the total size of entry points.
Total size is defined as the HTML page with inline images.
A number of linked resources which may be downloaded by modern browsers, including external style sheets, external client-side scripts, resources requiring 'plugins' and background images are not included. Hyperlinks Figure 2 shows the number of hyperlinks within each site. These are obtained from the A element and from image map AREA elements. This data may include duplicate URLs where more than one hyperlink to the same URL exists. HTTP Servers Figure 3 shows a pie chart of the server software encountered during the crawl.