[theme-reviewers] WordPress Themes Download Statistics Counter

[Otto]

Won't work. Don't bother.

I'm not giving details because this falls under spam prevention. We count
in the way we count, and that is that. Updates do count, somewhat.

When I have more useful and accurate stats, we'll find a way to present
them in a useful manner. Until then, sorry, but I'm not going to help
people try to influence and spam our systems.

Apologies for the terseness and typos, sent from my phone.


On Sep 13, 2013 7:27 PM, "Daniel" <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> No I was going to say that one can sign up for a pingdom account and
> set it up so that it make a request to the download url ever 60
> seconds.
> Regards,
> Daniel Fenn
>
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> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Stuart Wider <stuartwider at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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