Download relaxation dynamics on the WWW following newspaper publication of URL

Anders Johansen and Didier Sornette

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2000, vol. 276, issue 1, 338-345

Abstract: We describe an experiment on the dynamical response of the internaut population surfing the World-Wide-Web to a Dirac-like perturbation, specifically how the popularity of a web site evolves and relaxes as a function of time in response to the publication of a notice/advertisement in a newspaper. Following the publication of an interview, which contained our URL, by a journalist, we monitored the rate of downloads of our papers as a function of time and found it to obey a 1/tb power law with exponent b=0.58±0.03. This small exponent implies long-term memory and can be rationalized using the concept of persistence, which specifies how long a relaxing dynamical system remains in a neighborhood of its initial configuration.

Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(99)00468-9

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