[FM Discuss] Stats for downloads

[David Farning]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:39 PM, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 14:29 -0700, Donald A. Lobo wrote:
>> In general not being able to get stats in a regular basis seems a bit
>> bad. Does not really help any funding proposals when u cannot back it up
>> with numbers
>
> Im not sure i see that as bad. so far, you are only the about 2nd person
> that has ever asked for it. we never promised it, and we are not a
> publisher, we enable the production of content.

Yes, bad does seem a bit strong.  On the other hand download metric
are very useful to projects.

Sugar Labs and OLPC have specifically decided to host on FM in order
to drive traffic to the FM site and make people aware of the good
things happening in the free software ecosystem.

Would it be possible implement an apache log parser to determine
download statistics and make them available to manual maintainers?

david

> you are also more than welcome to host the pdf on your own site and
> record the downloads there and use any tracking program you think is
> appropriate
>
>
> adam
>
>
>>
>> I do think that knowing how many downloads per day/week/month and what
>> sections of a book are most viewed are quite basic and should be
>> provided. Integrating with an online package like google analytics or
>> awstats cannot be too hard. We'd be happy to help install and maintain
>> this package on the server
>>
>> lobo
>>
>>
>> adam hyde wrote:
>> > hey
>> >
>> > ah stats stats...i think civicrm is about 500 downloads of the pdf a
>> > month
>> >
>> > i cant tell u how many have read the pages (page views) since we dont
>> > get that sort of info. i would estimate that a small minority of the
>> > readers download the pdf, but what % i have no idea...
>> >
>> > adam
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 18:13 +0100, Michael McAndrew wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hello people,
>> >>
>> >> I'm looking at putting together download and sales stats for the
>> >> CiviCRM manual for a funding application.
>> >>
>> >> I've found the following stats on lulu...
>> >>
>> >> In "All-Time Revenue" under the "Total content tab", I found
>> >>
>> >> CiviCRM Print - 26 sales
>> >>
>> >> Under the "Total zero creator revenues" tab I found
>> >>
>> >> CiviCRM Print - 13
>> >> CiviCRM Download - 122
>> >>
>> >> So I am thinking that there have been 39 paper copies ordered and 122
>> >> downloads from Lulu - can anyone confirm this?
>> >>
>> >> Can I also get download stats from flossmanuals.net?
>> >>
>> >> PS.  Would be great if you could copy in lobo (see the to: line) in
>> >> any replies to this email
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> Michael
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