<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Nope, they're unique new downloads. Even after leaving the main themes page, there's a residual trickle down effect, because enough people browse page 2, 3 etc of recently updated themes.</span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Actually they are NOT unique downloads. Everytime a new version of a theme is released, all the upgrades corresponding to it are stacked in the download counter. In other words, if you go to your admin panel and click on "Upgrade", it will add 1 to your download counter. If you have shared hosting, all the upgrades from the sites on that host are counted as a total of 1. Basically one theme version per IP is counted as one download. The same philosophy is applied to plugins, where you can also see an analysis of how many installations exist for a certain version.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That is the reason why historically popular themes get a bigger download figure when a new version is released, and not so popular themes don't register much of a spike when a new version is released.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Bryan Hadaway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bhadaway@gmail.com" target="_blank">bhadaway@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nope, they're unique new downloads. Even after leaving the main themes page, there's a residual trickle down effect, because enough people browse page 2, 3 etc of recently updated themes.<br>
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</div>It's very similar to Google results placements and traffic.<br></div>
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