On 11/15/06, Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert@gmail.com> wrote:
On 15 Nov 2006, at 21:11, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
This is really interesting stuff. Is there any way to separate the modules and themes into separate lists? If it's too hard to do, don't worry about it, I'm glad to have this much :-)
It is a bit hard, we'd need to compare the list to a list of known themes and modules. Greg volunteered to write a parser which makes such a list from the awstats pages, maybe you can convince him to include that feature. ;)
Better yet would be to track downloads from within the project module. Then we can sort projects by number of downloads.
Agreed. In the meantime, here are some interesting points: +++The top 5 downloads for 4.6: drupal 3629 phptemplate 849 flexinode 370 taxonomy_menu 362 htmlarea 267 It appears that the xtemplate5.x problem is rather painful for our users. +++Top 10 modules for 4.7: Module Downloads tinymce 5127 image 4887 views 4057 cck 3088 event 2752 gallery 2685 acidfree 2398 ecommerce 2397 imce 2298 pathauto 1913 flexinode 1791 It appears people continue to love WYSIWYG, and photos. +++Downloads by tag: 4.7 439049 cvs 27294 4.6 11190 4.5 234 5.0 46 To me this indicates that module/theme maintainers need to do a better job of branching their modules especially when combined with the following chunk: +++Downloads by file type for CVS tag: Core 1316 Module 20621 Theme 4755 Translation 602 Drupal core cvs was downloaded only 1316 times - my guess is that most development/testing checkouts are done via cvs and not recorded in these stats. But to have such a disparity between cvs core downloads and cvs module/theme downloads makes me believe that many module maintainers are either not properly branching their code, or have set cvs as the default download leading to mistaken downloads, or something else not great. +++Most popular themes for 4.7: Theme Downloads Amare 2421 multiflex 2339 andreas01 2301 andreas09 1677 arcmateria 1645 This strong bias towards the beginning of the alphabet could be a coincidence, or it could be that people just try them out in order and slowly stop trying. +++Compared to the data from July: 4.6 4.7 June 6280 30077 October 3629 39855 So, 4.6 downloads are lower by half while 4.7 downloads are higher by rate of 7%/month. Which would mean downloads in June 2007 would be almost 70,000 if growth continues at the same rate. Finally, there were 303 people who couldn't help themselves and downloaded the amazingly useless new Microsummary module: http://drupal.org/project/microsummary There were also some situations I found where directories in CVS contributions weren't downloaded a single time in October. Since it felt mean to point these out, I placed them into the Drupal for Evil group: http://groups.drupal.org/node/1859 Regards, Greg