[Distutils] Download Counts on PyPI

[Donald Stufft]

On Jun 27, 2013, at 11:24 PM, PJ Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> Download counts have (kind of) been re-enabled on PyPI.
>> 
>> The new download counts work as so:
>> 
>>    * At the bottom of a detail page there is rolling tallies for the last
>>       day, the last week, and the last month[1]
>>    * The API exposes total download counts per file still.
>>    * The rolling counts update more or less in real time while the total counts in the API update hourly.
>>    * We no longer incorporate download counts from mirrors, making the mirroring infrastructure a tree and not a federation.
>> 
> 
> Is there any plan for per-version/per-file stats?  I notice that the
> current stat display is across all versions, which makes it harder to
> tell e.g. setuptools 0.7 uptake vs 0.6.


That information is available via the API in a total format (basically the old download formats).

I think for someone evaluating the popularity of a package the new format is much more useful. Obviously there is more information that _could_ be displayed (with varying amounts of effort) but you run the risk of overwhelming the user with stats. 

There's a lot more I'd like to do in general statistics wise geared towards different targeted audiences. There aren't exact plans right now as there are more pressing concerns and it needs to be done in a way that tells a useful "story" without overwhelming people with numbers.


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