[FM Discuss] Stats for downloads

[Douglas Bagnall]

Michael McAndrew wrote:

> Our book is aimed at the non-technical end user whereas our wiki (
> wiki.civicrm.org) is aimed at the technical user/developer.  Knowing how
> many people are reading the one compared to the other gives us really useful
> information about our audience.  Information that is really useful in
> shaping our project.


Here are some stats for CiviCRM for the 99 days before Monday.  I'm not
going to do this for anyone else -- CiviCRM are lucky because they asked
first.

The total number of PDF downloads: 4937
The total number of visits to /civicrm: 9623
Visits to /CiviCRM/Introduction, which is the same page: 942

(These were generated by running:

zgrep -E 'GET /CiviCRM[^ ]+\.pdf ' access*.gz|wc -l
zgrep -iE 'GET /civicrm/? ' access*.gz|wc -l
zgrep 'GET /CiviCRM/Introduction ' access*.gz|wc -l

in the apache log directory.)

Searching all the logs is slow, so to compare chapters I've used 10
days, each 10 days apart (selected via an 'access*3.gz' pattern).

/civicrm 920 (case insensitive, 786 exact)

Introduction 81
HowCanCiviHelp 299
BasicStructure 229
Examples 230
DATABASE 158
CMS 102
WhatIsWebBased 86
BasicConcepts 78
WhoisCiviCRM 82
Needs 130
GettingStarted 82
AdditionalConsiderations 68
OneStep 102
DataBasic 109
CONFIGURATIONCHECKLIST 132
HandlingContacts 124
ContactsAddingAndImporting 89
GroupsAndTags 71
CapturingExposing 102
Searches 55
FundPlanning 72
FundTactics 72
FundReports 40
EventPlanning 86
EventTactics 97
EventReports 60
MembershipPlanning 83
MembershipTactics 50
MembershipSignup 59
MembershipReports 47
Email 116
Mail 55
FreeSoftware 56
BugReporting 31
DevelopmentProcess 47
Glossary 41
AboutThisManual 59
Credits 27
print 54

The Credits numbers are perhaps half or two thirds search-bots (nobody
sits through the credits).  You could arguably treat that as a baseline
for the other chapters, and subtract 15 or 20 from each to estimate
human numbers.

The logs for the editing interface go somewhere else so are not included
here.


Douglas