[FM Discuss] Stats for downloads

[adam hyde]

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 16:55 -0500, David Farning wrote:

> 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?
> 

I dont want FM to be run by statistics. I want us to generate books
based on what we want to write, not using stats to steer the ship. 

As I see it, showing a funder a quality well written manual that you
have produced in 5 days is a pretty good argument to doing it again. if
it needs backing up, get testimonials...any thoughts on this?


> 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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