<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Mostly new packages will get roughly 2-3k of downloads from what appears to be</div><div>mirroring infrastructure. I’m hesitant to mess with the traffic numbers at all because</div><div>I don’t want them to be inaccurate *and* artificial vs just inaccurate (assuming you</div><div>think it’s the number of people downloading your project).</div><br><div><div>On Oct 25, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Dustin Oprea <<a href="mailto:dustin@randomingenuity.com">dustin@randomingenuity.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">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.</span></div>
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div>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?</span><div>
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What has to be done to get this to be accurate?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I've included two screenshots of PyPI and GA.</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dustin Oprea</span></div>
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