Mostly new packages will get roughly 2-3k of downloads from what appears to be mirroring infrastructure. I’m hesitant to mess with the traffic numbers at all because I don’t want them to be inaccurate *and* artificial vs just inaccurate (assuming you think it’s the number of people downloading your project).
On Oct 25, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Dustin Oprea <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems like the download counts on PyPI aren't accurate. Though the really > useful packages seem to have higher numbers than the packages that only apply > to a specific target audience, I'm fairly certain that the numbers are more > affected by robots and such than actual users. > > Recently I started a service that requires membership. In the last month, > PyPI reports 3000 downloads of the client, yet Google Analytics only reports > a handful of visits to the website. I have even less membership signups (as > expected, so soon after launch). Why are the download counts so inflated? > > What has to be done to get this to be accurate? > > I've included two screenshots of PyPI and GA. > > > > Dustin Oprea > <Selection_001.png><Selection_002.png>_______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig ----------------- Donald Stufft PGP: 0x6E3CBCE93372DCFA // 7C6B 7C5D 5E2B 6356 A926 F04F 6E3C BCE9 3372 DCFA
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