WordPress Plugins Page – faulty results

  • ttodua

    (@ttodua)


    3 years, 5 months ago

    On WordPress plugins “Advanced View” page, where there is the chart of the downloads (i.e. example), we see the spikes in downloads.

    However, most of those “Spike” downloads, are of updates made from WordPress websites itself (whoever has already installed that plugin and just clicks to “update plugin”). Which leads to quite misleading image of how people think when looking on those charts.
    It will be very easy to create some differentiation on that chart (it’s easy for internal API to differentiate the update requests from “download / install” ), and will results in much better chart and will be better help to developers to understand the real image, and not artificially “bumped” downloads while actually they are of no “new donwloads”.

    At this moment, it’s impossible to differentiate between “updates” and “download/installs”.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    3 years, 5 months ago

    That’s intentional, the download stats are counting every time the plugin is downloaded, that includes direct downloads from the site, as well as installations and updates in the Dashboard.

    The far more useful metric overall for what you’re looking for is the graph of active installation growth over time, that’s the change in the number of sites actually using the plugin over time.

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