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Statistics / Export

The "Statistics / Export" menu item provides download statistics and the means to export data in download logs.

Statistics and exports can be obtained for the download logs of one or more download files. Download date ranges can be specified. Downloads for duplicate IP addresses can be omitted.

Statistics include totals for each day downloads occurred and totals for individual web pages where the download links are clicked.

Exports are CSV files downloaded from the control panel.

Determine the setup titles to find for statistics or exporting using any of the following methods:

Clicking the "List All Records" button.
Selecting the title of the record in a dropdown.
Specifying one or more tags associated with the records.

On the next page:

Check the checkboxes of the titles to include on the statistics page or in the export file.
Optionally, specify a date range of the download log entries to include in the statistics or export file.
Optionally, suppress duplicate IP addresses by checking the "Yes, omit duplicate IP addresses from counts" checkbox. When this is checked, only the first download log entry of any IP address is applied to the statistics or included in the export file.
Click a button.
- The statistics button creates a page with various statistics.
- The exports button downloads a CSV file.

The Statistics Page

The statistics page contains the following numbers and graphs for each downloadable file. The numbers apply to any specified date range and may be adjusted if duplicate IP addresses were suppressed.

Total downloads: The total downloads.
By Date: A list of dates with number of downloads and bar graph for each.
By Traffic Source: A list of known referring URLs with number of downloads and bar graph for each.

The Export File

The export is a CSV file downloaded from the control panel. It contains data from each download log entry within any specified date range, minus any log entries of duplicate IP addresses if that was specified.

The downloaded CSV file exported from the downloads log contains this information:

Date and time
File name (downloaded file name)
File location (location of downloadable file)
IP address
Referring URL (if available)

The CSV file can be imported into Excel, OpenOffice.org, and other spreadsheet office computer software.

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