Title: Fake stats?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Fake stats?

 *  Resolved [andreamarucci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shiftsrl/)
 * (@shiftsrl)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fake-stats/)
 * I’ve a little problem. These are my stat
 * > [View post on imgur.com](https://imgur.com/paoZLKv)
 * and the problems are the 1943 downloads that are not in the log. I’ve installed
   the plugin last week so that number is quite impossible. Btw that specific download
   is not even in the log…
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-monitor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-monitor/)

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 *  Thread Starter [andreamarucci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shiftsrl/)
 * (@shiftsrl)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fake-stats/#post-6357318)
 * Weel. I’ think I’ll uninstall this since this problem is serious and obviously
   there’s no supporta at all. Better say this in advance so that the users can 
   choose…
 *  Plugin Contributor [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * (@barrykooij)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fake-stats/#post-6357321)
 * Hey,
 * It’s very hard for me to find out why you have this amount of downloads on a 
   file, especially when your log is empty. Was your log enabled from the start?
   We’ve had some reports of users using download manager which create many connections
   to the same file, causing Download Monitor to log many false positive download
   counts.
 * I also feel the need to respond to your comment about not getting any support
   at all. You’ve already emailed me twice and I politely asked you to post your
   question here because it’s regarding the **free** core plugin and that I will
   get back to you as soon as I could. I do support for my **free** plugins once
   a week at minimum. I understand this might be frustrating but I hope you’ll understand
   the huge amount of unpaid work it takes to do free support. It’s not about me
   not wanting to help you sooner, it’s about me also needing to do work I get paid
   for.
 * Kind Regards,
 * Barry Kooij
 *  Thread Starter [andreamarucci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shiftsrl/)
 * (@shiftsrl)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fake-stats/#post-6357322)
 * Sorry Barry, I was a little upset so don’t take my comment too seriously 🙂
 * In any case my log was enabled from the start. Probably the problem is the one
   you point at about using a DM…

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 * Last reply from: [andreamarucci](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shiftsrl/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fake-stats/#post-6357322)
 * Status: resolved