Hi,

> The Drill download page has a google Analytics insert on it.  I think that
> will hook the clicks that link to the CGI.

Our download pages do have google analytics in them and the in page analytics 
give some info  on links but it's limited and as far as I'm aware it only 
record clicks on links that are within the site and all the download links are 
show as 0%.

> Also, the middle link for "Direct File Download" is to a CDN which has
> full analytics.  

We would need to add the download files to a CDN for this to work and even then 
it still wouldn't give us the number for downloads from the Apache mirrors.

The download pages do see a reasonable amount of traffic. For this year rough 
numbers:
SDK binaries 20,000 views
SDK source 15,000 views
SDK utilities 10,000 views
Flex JS 8,000 views
FlexUnit 4,000 views
Tour De Flex 1000 views
FalconJX 500 views
Squiggly 300 views

Currently I think the best we can do is say a few % (5% perhaps?) of people 
that go to the download page actually download something. But people can still 
get our code off a mirror or other download site without us knowing about it. 
There's even a node JS utility to download Apache Flex [1] and this page states 
there's been 2,500 download of the 4.13 SDK from it [2].

FlexJS does seem to be getting a lot more views of the download page than 
installs via the installer when compared to our other software. There was a 
very large spike when Flex JS was first released an the first month or so ( > 
1/3 the total views) but has been slowly tapering off since then.

Justin

1. https://github.com/JamesMGreene/node-flex-sdk
2. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Programming/SDK-DDK/Apache-Flex-SDK.shtml

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