URL measurement studies?

Darren R. Hardy (dhardy@netscape.com)
Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:33:26 -0800

Does anyone know of a measurement study for URL lengths (not document
size, but the actual number of bytes in the URL itself). If I were to
guess at a histogram, I'd say:

60-80% are <256 bytes
80-90% are <512 bytes
90-95% are <1k bytes
95-97% are <4k bytes
97-99% are <8k bytes
100% are <16k bytes

Maybe that's overestimating the length of URLs in the Internet?

Based on Harvest's WWW Home Pages Gatherer, I found that 94.5% were <64
bytes, 98.5% were <80 bytes, 99.9% were <128 bytes, but that's only
representative of typically short "home page" URLs.

Thoughts?
-Darren