Columbia statistics
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
As promised, here are the download figures for the free Columbia give-away. We released the tune on January 9th on our blog and posted the info to the top 10 download forums from the Nostromo campaign one week later (showing some respect to the people directly checking our blog). The total results were somwhat higher this time, leading to over 900 downloads resp. 13 GB traffic.
The chart above shows the usual pattern peaking on the very day we posted it to the forums, so no suprises so far. What is interesting is the direct comparsion to the Nostromo download timeline, shown below (with some cutting at the edges to make them comparable). As you can see, this time the peak didn’t decay as rapidly as last time.
To complete the diagram show, here are the top sites (those with more than 10 downloads) people originated from when downloading. I have to add that in 1/3 of total cases, there was no evidence where people had come from, therefore the percentage values are normalized to “named” downloads. Please note that “Rest” denotes the block of sites with only minor figures.
Interestingly, there are some changes in download sites patterns, as there are:
- DOA dropping by on third in “named” DLs!
- an increase in local (neurocode.de) download figures by almost 40%
- quite some new sites and some minor loss of visibility in others
What are the conclusions from the data?
- There is no denying that forums (esp. DOA, though less than previous time) still are the major hub for download announcements. Still, we have managed to get more people to visit our site and download “directly from the source”, which is a major achievement!
- We also have had 30% more Columbia downloads compared to Nostromo and also a bigger variaty of source sites. Seems this time the word has spread further (esp. into some “minor” forums)!
These are two great trends, so thank you for your support!
Technorati Tags: download, statistics, free, forums, dnb
As promised, here are the download figures for the free Columbia give-away. We released the tune on January 9th on our blog and posted the info to the top 10 download forums from the Nostromo campaign one week later (showing some respect to the people directly checking our blog). The total results were somwhat higher this time, leading to over 900 downloads resp. 13 GB traffic.
The chart above shows the usual pattern peaking on the very day we posted it to the forums, so no suprises so far. What is interesting is the direct comparsion to the Nostromo download timeline, shown below (with some cutting at the edges to make them comparable). As you can see, this time the peak didn’t decay as rapidly as last time.
To complete the diagram show, here are the top sites (those with more than 10 downloads) people originated from when downloading. I have to add that in 1/3 of total cases, there was no evidence where people had come from, therefore the percentage values are normalized to “named” downloads. Please note that “Rest” denotes the block of sites with only minor figures.
Interestingly, there are some changes in download sites patterns, as there are:
- DOA dropping by on third in “named” DLs!
- an increase in local (neurocode.de) download figures by almost 40%
- quite some new sites and some minor loss of visibility in others
What are the conclusions from the data?
- There is no denying that forums (esp. DOA, though less than previous time) still are the major hub for download announcements. Still, we have managed to get more people to visit our site and download “directly from the source”, which is a major achievement!
- We also have had 30% more Columbia downloads compared to Nostromo and also a bigger variaty of source sites. Seems this time the word has spread further (esp. into some “minor” forums)!
These are two great trends, so thank you for your support!
Technorati Tags: download, statistics, free, forums, dnb
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