That's really interesting - I didn't realise Harmony had so many users! I would have thought it's fine to assume that the majority of people who followed the link completed the download - I'm sure that's what other projects do.
Thanks, Sian On 10/10/2007, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sian January wrote: > > Thanks for doing this Tim. The new page works for me with various UK > > mirrors. Are we able to get download statistics for M3 now we have > google > > analytics on the website? > > Analytics and the ASF server logs give us a bunch of information about > the usage of pages on our website, and the number of downloads etc. > However, now we have switched to the mirrors we actually can't tell if > people completed a download from a mirror site, only that they went to > our download page and followed the links. > > One of the reasons we were asked to switch to using mirrors was to > alleviate the load on the ASF servers (I understand we were getting > about 100 milestone downloads per day in September), plus of course > local mirrors make things quicker for our users. > > Regards, > Tim > > > > On 09/10/2007, Nadya Morozova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Tim, > >> thanks for the new page. Looks great. > >> > >> On 10/9/07, Tim Ellison < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> There is a new download page is ready for you to take a look at and > >> test. > >>> http://harmony.apache.org/download.cgi > >>> > >>> I removed the M1 and M2 builds, since they are not ones that we are > >>> encouraging people to use, and I added the M3 source and Debian > download > >>> links. The idea is to move M1 and M2 into the archive. > >>> > >>> It will take a while for the mirrors to catch up with M3, so a number > of > >>> them may not have the download files available yet. I tested it with > >>> reverse.net which has synchronized already. The checksum files must > not > >>> be mirrored, so they still come from www.apache.org. > >>> > >>> The snapshots are still residing on people.apache.org. I hope these > are > >>> low traffic downloads since they are not so well tested. > >>> > >>> Please shout if there is a problem or improvement you can see, > otherwise > >>> I intend to switch over to the new download page tomorrow, and will > >>> retire the old one with a redirect to keep any links to it happy. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Tim > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> Cheers, > >> Nadya > >> > > > > > > > -- Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU
