CloudFront Log Analytics·Indiana University

CNS Website Analytics

Traffic analytics for cns.iu.edu derived from Amazon CloudFront access logs. Covers Apr 2008 – May 2026 · 16.2M total requests · 225 countries.

Human Visits12.4Mof 16.2M total requests
Date RangeApr 2008 – May 202616,242,105 log rows
Countries225US = 62.9% of traffic
Human Traffic76.5%Of all CloudFront requests
News Articles187Latest: Jan 2026

Traffic Type Breakdown

16,242,105 total CloudFront requests

Yearly Traffic Volume

Human, bot, and AI-bot requests per year (stacked)

Monthly Human Traffic with Publications & Events

Blue line = monthly human visits, purple bars = publications, amber bars = events

111 months
Published (right axis)
Preprint
Events (right axis)
Click on the chart to see 405 publications and 1000 events in this date range

Top 10 Most Visited Pages

Pages ranked by total CloudFront request count

All Time

Content Type Breakdown

Requests categorized by content type served

CDN Cache Performance

68.0% effective hit rate (Hit + RefreshHit) across 16.2M requests

CloudFront
Research Funding
Total Funding$42.9M81 grants total
Active Grants2Active as of today
Top FunderNSF30 grants
Grant Count8126 unique funders

Grant Timeline (Top 20 by Amount)

Horizontal bars show grant duration, colored by funder

Gantt
NIH
NSF
Other

Active Funding by Year

Annual funding amount distributed across active grant years, stacked by funder

Key Findings
Growth Trajectory

Human traffic peaked at 2.5M requests in 2025 — a steady climb from early CloudFront logging. 2023 and 2024 show sustained high traffic above 2M human requests per year.

AI Crawler Emergence

AI-assistant bots account for 339.1K requests (2.1%) — first appearing mid-2023. LLM training crawlers are actively indexing CNS's research publications and team data.

Content Demand

Team photos draw 953.8K requests, publications 219.7K, and presentations 301.6K — research outputs are a primary traffic driver.