[theme-reviewers] WordPress Themes Download Statistics Counter

[Daniel]

I wasn't going to try it out, just pointing it out.

On 9/14/13, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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Regards,
Daniel Fenn