Download Statistics

Post by **Programmer** » Sun 14 May, 2006 9:20 am

Any one who has looked at the deck download statistics in the last month or so will have noticed that they have seemed a bit proposterous (500+ downloads for a single deck in one week etc). This is because since creating the new Deck Exchange, the way I calculated deck downloads before (based on reading the server logs for file requests) has become completely inaccurate. This is because everytime someone previews a deck it counts as a file request and is logged on the server.

As of yesterday I have changed the way it works, and now any time a deck is downloaded (by someone pressing the download button) I update a field in the database. This means the statistics should now be as close to 100 accurate as possible. The count only began yesterday though, so it will take a week before we get a really good picture of the top downloads.

Spread downloads are still calculated in the old way.

Cheers!