On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:43:01PM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Jeff Spaleta
<jspaleta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did two counts, one for DVD and Live without uniq'ing the IP
>> addresses doing the retrievals (because there could be multiple
>> downloads from people behind firewalls), and one with. In both cases
>> I think the numbers are very significantly higher than our current
>> stats show. The raw numbers per day since F10 release are attached.
>
> All those numbers in the txt use the "corrected" approach?
Just to be clear.. what where the stats showing before? Just the
unique DVD counts?
The download numbers before were using the direct download command
shown on this wiki page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics/Commands
There was at least one major problem with that command; the Fedora 10
Live ISO filenames don't start with "Fedora-10," they start with
"F10," meaning we weren't counting them *at all*. So I've included
two counts, one for the DVD and one for the Live ISO as clicked from
the get-fedora page. (Other spins, as far as I can tell, are done via
torrent and we're capturing those statistics from the tracker
elsewhere.)
The second problem may not be a real problem -- it's that we are
uniq-ing the IP addresses doing the downloading. That method has the
potential to cut out legitimate, repetitive downloads from inside a
firewall. I'd feel better cutting those ticks out if they were
separated by a very short timeframe. Then we could be reasonably
certain they were caused by repeated clicks, rather than actual
separate downloads. In the interest of a conservative approach, I'm
willing to stick with uniq-ing the stats, but I produced both sets of
numbers anyway.
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