Re: Rough estimate of number of downloads per year/month/day?

On Nov 7, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Kris Pennella wrote:

> On Nov 7, 2012, at 7:46 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Jonathan S. Katz
>> <jonathan(dot)katz(at)excoventures(dot)com> wrote:
>>> On Nov 7, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Dave Page wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>>>>> We are fairly restrictive about giving access to that data. You'd have
>>>>> to check that with -core.
>>>>
>>>> We've always said no in the past, though we have shared specific
>>>> pre-generated reports from time to time.
>>>>
>>>>> Through a quick discussion with Jonathan yesterday it seems the data
>>>>> in there isn't actually that correct anyway - it looks like we're
>>>>> hitting the limit of what the free tier of google analytics will give
>>>>> us, and have been hitting that for quite some time, so we don't really
>>>>> know what the numbers are...
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, that would explain a thing or two...
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the next level up plan for Google Analytics that would get us all the data starts at $150K / year. But I wonder if they have some options for nonprofits?
>>
>> Wow. That's insane.
>
> Heh, I didn't think this would be a simple process.
> If the site is maxing out the "free" version of Google Analytics, that means 10M+ impressions/hits (not page views) a month which is already saying something.
> There is certainly some filtering that can be done in the free version that would arrive at some useful metrics for everyone.
> Jonathan, what makes you think the data isn't "correct" (or being collected correctly)?

Kris: http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1070983

Magnus did some rough calculations off the cuff based on some of the major-viewed pages within the GA token that the site uses and figured we are above those limits.

Jonathan