August 2011 – sobre.arquivo.pt

We reached 1 200 million archived contents

Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:43 pm

Numbers from July 2011 about volume of archived data.

We reached 1 200 million contents archived since 1996, 79% of them are indexed
We save 62% of disk space by using DeDuplicator on our daily crawls
We estimated to have disk space until 2017 to archive data and memory until 2014 to make it searchable

Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:46 pm

The rARc project is suspended since July, 2011.

The project for collaborative preservation named rARC started in 2007 within the Portuguese Web Archive.

Contributions:

Successful proof of concept and project in production
Master thesis of André Nogueira, Preservation of the Web through distributed large-scale replication, University of Lisbon
Source code
Page of the project

We thank all the contributors for their collaboration and support.

Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:42 pm

Data from April to June, 2011

Our search is supported by a distributed system composed by 111 multi-thread processes
We have 61 computers:
- 1.8 TB of memory;
- 122 processors (488 cores);
- 348 hard discs (320 TB).
Try our search ove the past!

Last updated on September 29th, 2017 at 02:40 pm

Data from April to June, 2011

93% of the full-text searches performed on the Portuguese Web Archive were responded in less than 5 seconds.
95% of the URL searches were answered in less than 5 seconds.
73% of the user clicks are on the first page of results.
We wrote 72 000 lines of code to improve the original search system based on the Archive-access project.
Try our search!