Originally Posted by Phanx
But how does using a separate page capture different/better statistics than using the same page? That's the part I don't get. What stats are you tracking other than "how many people downloaded the file"? (Also, as an addon author, I can't even imagine any other stats I could possibly care about.) Why can't you use the techniques used by the large majority of other websites that don't require me to go sit on a useless extra page to download a file? Presumably at least some number of them are capturing "download statistics". And the Minion download button works fine now that you check that the thing you want to ping actually exists before blocking the normal click event.  |
Most other large websites have a download landing page...
Its for recording downloads stats on a daily basis. Right now you just have a total, to get something broken out into daily stats / uniques cheaply we went with GA.