Statistics about the site
The Quick story:
As of Sunday, September 29, 2002 this site contains
1,043 files
with a total byte count of 7,489,171 bytes.
There are 1011 html files and these contain
a total of 27,337 URLs (links). Most of these URLs
use the HTTP protocol and of these there are 3415
unique link locations addressed within this site and
an additional 1123
unique link locations addressed outside the site.
About a dozen of the files are not accessible to the public.
The Details:
As of Sunday, September 29, 2002 this site is built from
48 programs, and
35 source files.
The programs are mainly perl scripts which operate on the source
files to create the files that form the site you see.
The programs help create a consistent interface and produce most of the links.
The website itself consists of
2 sub-directories and
1,043
files (with a total byte count of
7,489,171
bytes) categorized as follows:
- 1011 html files (total byte count = 6,764,102)
- 29 image (or sound) files (total byte count = 621,987)
- 3 text files (total byte count = 103,082)
The
1011 html files contain a total of 27,337 links to 4,541 unique link locations (files or anchors within files).
The average size of the 1009 html files that do not
contain the poem itself is 6,356 bytes.
The average size of the 2 html files that do
contain the poem itself is 175,117 bytes.
The 1011 html files fall into the following categories:
82 are files presented within the unframed portion of the site.
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80 are top level pages (the home page, alternative framed pages,
initial contents for each frame, the files containing the poem, etc).
- 2 are undetermined page types.
929 are files presented within the framed portion of the site.
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12 are pages used for navigation, help, hints, etc.
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94 are files that hyper-linked words or phrases in the poem actually
link to.
These files contain definitions, translations, explanations of terms, etc.
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203 are files having supplementary text
(such as poems mentioned in Eliot's notes, their translations and sources).
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6 are encylopedia pages
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15 are auxilary files having more information about various subjects.
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599 are files containing extra information about each line
(the Allude, Xref, Eliot, Orig,
Comment, etc. links)
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78 for Allude. These contain information about various
allusions the poem makes.
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54 for Eliot. These contain Eliot's notes to The Waste Land
(most also contain additional notes by this site's author).
One of these files contains links to all the others.
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36 files contain information about the lines of the poem.
These break down as follows:
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25 for Draft.
These contain information about the original drafts of the poem.
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4 for Origin.
Where the lines had their origin.
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3 for Change.
Changes that occurred from edition to edition.
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4 for Compare.
Lines for comparison to other Eliot poems.
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19 for questions (marked as "?").
These contain questions for the reader to consider.
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59 files for commentary. These are broken down as:
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19 for Comment.
Standard or non-controversial commentaries.
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17 for Komment.
The site author's own commentary. Probably controversial.
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10 for Poetry.
Contain discussions about the poetry of the lines.
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13 for Bio.
For lines that somewhat match Eliot's biography.
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35 for Misc. These contain miscellaneous information about various
subjects.
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318 for Xref. For these cross reference files:
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93 files contain cross references for a single topic
(each page has links to lines in the poem that fall into that topic).
One of these files contains links to all the others.
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225 pages contain two or more cross reference topics each for
lines that have more than one cross reference topic
(essentially a combination of two or more of the files
just mentioned above.)
Of the 4541 unique URLs linked to from this site:
- 2 are invocations to an e-mail protocol (e.g., href="mailto:person@example.com")
- 1 is an attempt to retrieve files via the ftp protocol
(e.g., href="ftp://ftp_server.example.com/file")
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1034 are made to files within the site
(e.g., href="file.html")
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2381 are made to anchors within files at this site
(e.g., href="file.html#anchor")
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1123 are attempts to retrieve files (webpages) from other
websites via the http protocol. For example:
- href="http://www.example.com/"
- href="http://www.example.com/directory/"
- href="http://www.example.com/directory/file.html"
- href="http://www.example.com/directory/file.html#anchor"
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