Title: Install numbers
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Install numbers

 *  Resolved [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-numbers/)
 * Feel free to ignore this. I’m just curious because of the difficulties of measuring
   how many sites one’s plugin is installed on.
 * Presumably you know exactly how many are installed, because of the API keys. 
   The dashboard says 41,000. However, your wordpress.org stats say BP’s only been
   downloaded 31,000 times… how does that work??
 * David
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bruteprotect/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bruteprotect/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Sam Hotchkiss](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samhotchkiss/)
 * (@samhotchkiss)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/install-numbers/#post-4592316)
 * Hey David– fair question! There are 2 ways this happens– we have a number of 
   developers who download BP once and install it on dozens of sites. Also, BP is
   installed on a handful of larger blog networks (with 500+ sites each)– we count
   every site within those networks, even though they only need to download the 
   plugin once.

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