It’s been two weeks since we launched our Nigerian Stock Exchange data API. We decided to do some analytics on the API usage yesterday and to our amazement, we’ve received a total of 665 hits on our API since launch on July 13th, 2011. Certainly some of this requests don’t translate into valid requests. Here’s a breakdown:
| Response Type | Response Code | Hits |
|---|---|---|
| OK (Successful API requests) | 200 | 410 |
| OK (All successful requests) | 200 | 439 |
| Forbidden (Unauthenticated Requests) | 403 | 9 |
| Not Found | 404 | 182 |
Breakdown of HTTP Request Types
The large number of Not Found requests were generated by trojans making requests like /PhpMyAdmin and other such requests (they were probably looking for security loopholes).
Of the 23 API tokens that have been provisioned, we have a 65% usage on those keys. Here’s a distribution of the requests we’ve received from those keys:
| Requests | Users | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 26% |
| 2 | 4 | 26% |
| 3 | 1 | 7% |
| 4 | 2 | 13% |
| 5 | 2 | 13% |
| 8 | 1 | 7% |
| 369 | 1 | 7% |
Requests Vs API Users
In order to make the points in the chart fit within a reasonable chart size, the topmost dot was reduced.