I had this exact same question yesterday and looked into it a little bit.
Here' s a sort-of explanation http://blog.npmjs.org/post/92574016600/numeric-precision-matters-how-npm-download-counts Also, http://www.quora.com/Why-does-Node-Packaged-Modules-npm-have-so-many-downloads-per-month I think one factor might be (at least in my case) is that the dependency may be downloaded on every build on my CI server. Which would explain most of the downloads :) When each commit kicks off a build and download, that number gets up fast. Add to that any bots, etc.. and the number can move up quite a bit. On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 01:36:19 UTC-5, Ed Sykes wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I uploaded my first package a few days ago. Looking at the stats on the > package https://www.npmjs.com/package/lib1self-server it claims a number > of downloads. I'm pretty certain these stats are way too high. What's going > on here, are there proxies / scrapers / cdns downloading - adding to the > stats? > > Ed > -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/7cd6497c-dd27-421a-856b-3deee25259b9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
