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number of people cruising through a site for a given
time. Traffic can be tracked by the day, hour,
month, or even the year.
Several major
Internet backbone providers have Web sites that post
hourly or more frequent statistics on how fast data
is traveling on their backbone lines and the
percentage of data packets that are being lost. Our
table summarizes these sites, the information they
provide, and how often they are updated.
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