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Holiday traffic trends

December 26th, 2007

I always find our traffic patterns to be extremely interesting, from both an administrative and also a human behavior perspective. As could be expected, our traffic was way down for the holiday weekend.

This is an example traffic graph for one of our servers.
Christmas week traffic graph

It’s even more pronounced if you drill it down to only smtp traffic.
Christmas week traffic graph

Kudos to Tobi Oetiker for writing mrtg, smokeping, and rrdtool, one of which almost every admin uses, and some of us use all of them. If you use his stuff, consider getting him something off of his (in)famous wish-list

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