Title: How does download count work?
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# How does download count work?

 *  Resolved [whoaloic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whoaloic/)
 * (@whoaloic)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-download-count-work/)
 * Hello,
    Does download count works by getting url file or by clicking the link?
   I ask this because I have a link in anorther website that does to url file and
   i was wondering if the counting was taken in account? Best regards.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-monitor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/download-monitor/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Barry Kooij](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrykooij/)
 * (@barrykooij)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-download-count-work/#post-8206484)
 * Hey there,
 * Sorry for my delayed reply!
 * We count all downloads that are processed via our URL (by default _/download/
   your-download/_). So if the other website links to your download URL, they will
   count as downloads!
 * Kind Regards,
 * Barry Kooij
 *  [stimsonm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stimsonm/)
 * (@stimsonm)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-download-count-work/#post-8283942)
 * I’m also wondering how things are counted as the admin page says 17000 downloads
   but the csv export says 7000, any idea why that would happen?

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-does-download-count-work/#post-8283942)
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