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Redirect https://downloadcounter.libreoffice.org to https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads

Added by Thomas Bertels over 3 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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Webserver
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Team - Q3/2020
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The download counter added by #1842 is down (https://downloadcounter.libreoffice.org/).
Is this intentional?


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947px-LibreOffice_weekly_downloads.svg.png (45.9 KB) 947px-LibreOffice_weekly_downloads.svg.png Old download counter graph Thomas Bertels, 2020-07-14 17:37
Screenshot_2020-07-14 LibreOffice Download Metrics.png (74.5 KB) Screenshot_2020-07-14 LibreOffice Download Metrics.png New download counter graph Thomas Bertels, 2020-07-14 17:37
Actions #1

Updated by Guilhem Moulin over 3 years ago

  • Priority changed from Normal to Low

Yes, it's been subsumed by https://stats.documentfoundation.org which uses a different backend. https://downloadcounter.lo was never really widely advertised and was visited only rarely but I guess we could add a redirect.

Actions #2

Updated by Thomas Bertels over 3 years ago

The counter was actually at https://downloadcounter.libreoffice.org/test

By the way, the data seems to have changed with the new download counter.
You can compare the old data (https://web.archive.org/web/20190802113142/https://downloadcounter.libreoffice.org/test)(see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LibreOffice_and_Apache_OpenOffice_downloads_per_week.svg for its visualization) to the new one (https://stats.documentfoundation.org/data/downloads.json). I wonder which one is correct.

The new one also has more precision for the last few months (downloads per day) but the downloads per week aren't available after two years.

Actions #3

Updated by Guilhem Moulin over 3 years ago

Thomas Bertels wrote:

I wonder which one is correct.

The intention was to make the new metrics collection more accurate. It uses Matomo's heuristics to weed out duplicates (download resumption or bots), robots and more.

Actions #4

Updated by Thomas Bertels over 3 years ago

Are these heuristics applied to all downloads or downloads starting from a few months ago?

In any case, I wonder why there's a spike around 2013 in the new download counter.

Actions #5

Updated by Guilhem Moulin over 3 years ago

Thomas Bertels wrote:

Are these heuristics applied to all downloads or downloads starting from a few months ago?

Old metrics are less accurate than newer ones: for old downloads we only had partial data available to import to Matomo

Actions #6

Updated by Guilhem Moulin over 3 years ago

  • Subject changed from Download counter down to Redirect https://downloadcounter.libreoffice.org to https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads
Actions #7

Updated by Florian Effenberger over 3 years ago

  • Target version set to Q3/2020
Actions #8

Updated by Guilhem Moulin about 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed

Added the redirect now:

$ curl -so/dev/null -w"%{http_code} %{redirect_url}\\n" http://downloadcounter.libreoffice.org/
303 https://stats.documentfoundation.org/downloads
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