[Commons-l] Institutional stats reports

[Platonides]

Magnus Manske wrote:
>> We could do daily CheckUsage for images and count on a day-by-day
>> basis. Or just once a week. Or once a month. These will average out
>> over time.

That would work if they were exact views. But given that they're average 
views, the fact that one person viewed the page today with an ratio 
1/1000 doesn't mean the other 999 people could view it yesterday before 
the image was added.


Daniel Kinzler wrote:
> Err... don't we have logs of the access to the image files themselves (including 
> thumbnails)? It would be MUCH simpler to analyse those than to look at page 
> views and then at image usage and then infer how much an image is loaded...

I think only urls in the form http://foo/wiki/bar are being counted.