On 5/5/07, Marshall Schor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One confusion I have: If we count "clicks" on the download link, it seems that even if that link led to a "mirror" page, it would count pretty accurately (except of course if a person clicked to download, and then didn't bother going through with it). I guess it would also miss the case where people somehow found their way to a download mirror *without* going through the project download page. Did I miss something, or would this give a "reasonable" estimate of downloads?
Unless they don't download it via your link, or they download more than once (getting copies on multiple machines?), or any number of other things that can throw your numbers off. It's a losing battle for statistics that IMO aren't very useful anyway. All download counts are good for is ego stroking, there are better ways to spend time and energy. -garrett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
