That would be good. But what would be that parameter? Would it be unique to installation, and is that anonymous?
On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 7:10 PM Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com> wrote: > If we could find a reliable way to measure active users, a good way to > respond to all the various unscientific surveys would be to simply say, on > our website, "43,210 active users!" and explain in fine print how the > number is calculated. That alleviates the main concern--that users may be > turning away from NetBeans because they think nobody else is using it. > > One anonymous way to measure monthly active users would be to count the > number of requests to the update center. By default the IDE checks for > updates every week. To avoid double-counting clients, a HTTP parameter can > be added to the update center request that indicates whether the request is > the first one made in the current calendar month. > > Once monthly active users are measured, a running average over 6 or 12 > months can be calculated for website display purposes, to dampen > fluctuations due to academic semesters and such. > > -- Eirik > > -----Original Message----- > From: Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> > Sent: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:36 AM > To: dev@netbeans.apache.org > Subject: Re: Statistics re Apache NetBeans > > Well, this is problematic, too. Firstly, all months are not equal, e.g., > every March and October usage of NetBeans is higher than other months > (probably connected to academic years), and secondly, downloads do not > equal active users (three pings to plugin infrastructure equals an active > user, i.e., starts of NetBeans. > > Let’s leave this whole survey discussion now. It’s clear surveys suck and > every year we’ve been getting further in making this point. > > Gj > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 16:32, Zoran Sevarac <seva...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Also those statistics don't show anything, unique visitors to a site > > > is not users. > > > > > > > Actually, statistics provided in Excel file by Emilian for Dec and Jan > > include also the number of downloads per month which is very likely > > highly correlated with the number of active users > > > > -- > > Zoran Sevarac, PhD, Associate Professor University of Belgrade, > > Faculty of Organisational Sciences, Department for Software > > Engineering Java Champion > > <https://community.oracle.com/community/java/java-champions> > > | Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador | Deep Netts > > | <http://www.deepnetts.com> > > Co-founder & CEO > > > -- Zoran Sevarac, PhD, Associate Professor University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organisational Sciences, Department for Software Engineering Java Champion <https://community.oracle.com/community/java/java-champions> | Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador | Deep Netts <http://www.deepnetts.com> Co-founder & CEO
