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Originally Posted by Laurens
Well, I wouldn't trust their statistics. Their system claims more than 15000 downloads this month for Sunrise, but the actual number is 1500-2000. Frankly, I don't see the point in displaying the number of downloads in the first place.
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How do you know? Even if the download references your site directly, those figures can
never reflect real downloads. Many (most) general ISPs will have a caching Squid server in front of their users.
If one user downloads Sunrise from PalmGear and 500 others from within that same ISP (such as AOL, SBC, whatever) request the same file, it will come out of squid, not from your site. PalmGear will reflect the download, since that is where the request was initiated, but the actual file itself would come from the provider's Squid cache. Your server logs might only record the first hit, and since Squid never needs to hit your server again for the same file of the same size/type, you won't see the subsequent downloads. I know this from 6+ years of Plucker downloads, many from PalmGear.
I also don't doubt that PalmGear is inflating downloads. That's something that many people have complained about for awhile, but even if they are inflating it, inflating it by 10x the actual number seems quite extreme.
Good information overall though, keep it coming!
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Summer is the worst period in terms of general software sales, so this might not be the best time to take a measurement.
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Agreed, at least we can hope people are getting out of the house to enjoy the weather! <grin>