[theme-reviewers] WordPress Themes Download Statistics Counter

[Stuart Wider]

Were you about to say 'is there any protection against gaming the counter
system'?
Thats my guess what you were implying? ;)


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Daniel <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I hope that there is protection from things like pingdon (I will let
> you work out what I am about to say)
>
> On 9/13/13, Bryan Hadaway <bhadaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had always wondered the same thing and tried investigating how good it
> > was.
> >
> > Generally speaking, it's actually just a click counter, not really a
> > download counter (which I don't know if that would even be possible
> without
> > intrusion or at all) because you can click to download, not actually
> > download and just refresh the page and the count goes up once. Trying a
> > second time does not work so I assume it records the IP address to try
> and
> > keep the numbers consistent and accurate.
> >
> > Considering that a lot of ISPs automatically change their customers IP
> > addresses every so often, anytime they re-downloaded it would count again
> > if their IP had changed.
> >
> > The download link isn't nofollowed so whether robots following the link
> > counts as yet another download count, not sure.
> >
> > My guess would be that at least 80% of the recorded count for any given
> > theme accounts for real unique and separate people who genuinely
> downloaded
> > and tried the theme.
> >
> > Then, if we got into what percentage of people from the download count
> are
> > actually still actively using the theme we'd probably quickly fall below
> > the 50% mark.
> >
> > Anyways, please keep in mind that this is all merely anecdotal on my
> part.
> >
> > Thanks, Bryan
> >
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Daniel Fenn
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