SF.net's statistics are screwed up...

earlz · Post by **earlz** » Mon Dec 24, 2007 6:49 pm

Ok, so I saw this weird project in most active projects...
https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpledirectory/

Ok, this has an activity percentile of 99.01

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Date (UTC)  	Rank  	Total Pages 1  	Downloads  	Project Web Hits  	Tracker opened (closed)  	Forum Posts
25 Dec 2007 * 	N/D 	57 	1,769 	1 	0 (0) 	0
24 Dec 2007 	2,016 	1,506 	68,598 	62 	0 (0) 	0

Ok, now do those make sense? 62 project web hits, but 66,000+ downloads!?

Yea, and then aside form that, how is it 99.01? there are like 8 posts in the forum, less than 20 in the website forum, there is no CVS access, no news, last news entry on his website was 11-04-07, and just...yea..

someone care to explain how all that can happen?
How the crap do people download over 60,000 more than pages they request? I looked through other most-downloaded projects, and they had nothing like this, their pages requested was almost always higher than downloads, and if it wasn't, then it was close(plus or minus 1000)

lukem95 · Post by **lukem95** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:49 am

direct link to download page on a forum maybe?

the hit counter could only count homepage hits =\

or someone rigged it with an auto-downloader

Bobalandi · Post by **Bobalandi** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 7:54 am

No, their stats are really messed up, they're not rigged, but I remember there was an announcement on the home page talking about it, I wonder how they're judging how active a project is right now.