in reply to Gathering module usage statistics


I think that it is time that someone sidesteps the argument about whether CPAN statistics can be collected accurately or not and just implements something.

Statistics can be collected, see this from Graham Barr or the Phalanx 100. There also seems to be some intention of implementing a perl.cpan.stats although it may be vapourware.

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John.

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Re: Re: Gathering module usage statistics
by Juerd (Abbot) on May 04, 2004 at 20:46 UTC

    Statistics can be collected

    I use a geographically nearby mirror, and expect most people do so. gbarr counted only the downloads of search.cpan.org. That excludes ALL automated downloads. As you can see, only the famous ones are in that list.

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      I don't think you need the absolute numbers of all downloads --- an impression of the relative numbers of your module compared with the "big ones" should be enough. And I don't think that the number relation between automated CPAN downloads and search.cpan.org downloads will be that different.
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        I don't think that the number relation between automated CPAN downloads and search.cpan.org downloads will be that different.

        I think they will.

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