[Catalog-sig] Feature request: activity analytics/statistics/traffic/downloads

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:01:17PM -0400, Yang Zhang wrote:
> Hi, is it possible to collect and view statistics about the activity of 
> our packages?  For me, I don't mind having this information be either 
> public or private, and I'm particularly interested in # visitors and # 
> downloads (over time).  Even a quick and dirty, very-coarse-grained 
> first pass at introducing these numbers (ASAP) would be tremendously 
> appreciated!  Thanks for hearing me in.

Rough download figures for individual files are updated once per day
and shown on the release page.  For example,
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Rat/0.1 shows 319, 101, and 185 downloads
for the three variants of the package.

--amk