Plugin Active Installs stats in repository
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My newish plugin (3 days) has been downloaded over 40 times at the time of writing, with at least 5 sites that I’ve seen running the plugin, yet the Active Installs total on the repository hasn’t changed.
It still says Fewer than 10. When I checked the proper stats with the API, it returns 0 for active installs.
Why is this? I expected that after 24 hours or so the active installs would start to update. I understand that this figure relies on sites with the plugin installed phoning in for updates, so there might be a delay in reporting. But we’re in day four now and it’s still reporting 0 active installs even though I can see several that have it installed and are using it.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/project-cards-for-plutio/
Thanks,
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I guess I’ll twiddle my thumbs.
My concern is about the accuracy of the stats and how the mechanism works – if they’re being provided they should be accurate, even if there’s a delay. I know the number of active installs is more than five, and could be well up into the double digits, and has been for several days. I’ve got no problem if it takes X days to update the stat due to caching. I’d just like to know what the cache levels are so that I can judge if there’s a problem with the stats reporting mechanism, a problem with my plugin that means people are ditching it as soon as they see it, or something else.
Do you know what the system is in terms of cache levels etc?
Like you said, I’m “a volunteer that generously contributed code and time for free”. And although I contribute time and effort for free I’d like to know there’s some point to it and that people are using it. Otherwise what’s the point?
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