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yeoldetoast was asking about D-Mod download statistics, so I thought I'd take a look.
Unfortunately, my hosting provider (1and1) changed how they archive logs, so it is a bit difficult to have some useful statistics. I have access to the raw logs from Nov 17 2014 to today, and some old logs that were gathered from 2004-2011 accessible using awstats (which lets you see monthly statistics, but nothing based on years or comparing month-to-month).
I made a few conclusions.
1. People Download the Very Highest-Rated D-Mods
Maybe not that surprising. But, the most popular D-Mod by a longshot is Pilgrim's Quest. It has been downloaded 237 times from Nov 17 through today.
Update (refresh to see correct chart): Lyna's Story is also very popular, but CC2 1.01 is actually behind a bit (given its high 9.6 rating). I think this might be because it is advertised as a sequel; Cast Awakening Part 1 is listed as the first part of a series, and has a much higher download count.
Stone of Balance is also a bit of an outlier, with 118 downloads.
The further down the scores, though, the download count drops off fairly steeply.
2. Dink Smallwood HD Is Still Popular
Less popular than Pilgrim's Quest, but still very popular, are the D-Mods suggested by Dink Smallwood HD. Dink Smallwood HD has a built-in D-Mod browser that links to Mystery Island, The Savebot Massacre, Cloud Castle 2, and Cast Awakening Part 1. Seth hosts Mystery Island, but he steals my bandwidth for the others.
Cloud Castle 2 v1.0 was downloaded 193 times.
The Savebot Massacre was downloaded 165 times.
Initiation v1.0.3 was downloaded 160 times.
3. People Like Epics
There's an interesting cluster of epics in the download counts:
POTA: 136
FIAT: 122
SOB: 118
While they all have good scores, they don't really stand out in another way I can think of. And they don't really stand-out in the graph, now that I look at it:
I've also plotted the other Epics, for comparison. Most of them stay within the score-to-downloads cluster.
4. Alphabetization Is Key
One other curious outlier is the download counts of As Good As Eternity (103 downloads); if you go to the D-Mod list, this is the very first D-Mod that has a ranking of 9.0 or better.
I noticed this several years ago, and it was the reason I was going to rename my D-Mod series (again) to Ancient Legacy.
5. Other High-Download D-Mods
Rounding out all D-Mods with downloads of 75 or more, there is one huge outlier:
Somehow, Attack of the Evil Wizard has been downloaded 90 times, more than several higher-rated epics like Quest for Dorinthia. I have no idea why.
6. Contest Entries
People like sequels, I guess.
7. Recent Releases/Updates
Here's a cumulative sum chart of the recent releases. Curiously, today was a big day with lots of downloads across just about all releases.
8. Historical Comparison
Here's the download rate of Pilgrim's Quest in January of each year I have stats for:
Note that these numbers include partial downloads; the average file size reported is something around 20 MB for each file (and PQ is 35 MB). I believe my numbers above are full downloads only.
So, it's possible that the download counts are about the same, roughly. If PQ has been downloaded 237 times over the past two months, that's around 115 times a month. And if half of the earlier PQ downloads were terminated for one reason or another, that would be in the range of 115.
Data
D-Mod Download Totals
D-Mod Download Totals By Day
Unfortunately, my hosting provider (1and1) changed how they archive logs, so it is a bit difficult to have some useful statistics. I have access to the raw logs from Nov 17 2014 to today, and some old logs that were gathered from 2004-2011 accessible using awstats (which lets you see monthly statistics, but nothing based on years or comparing month-to-month).
I made a few conclusions.
1. People Download the Very Highest-Rated D-Mods
Maybe not that surprising. But, the most popular D-Mod by a longshot is Pilgrim's Quest. It has been downloaded 237 times from Nov 17 through today.
Update (refresh to see correct chart): Lyna's Story is also very popular, but CC2 1.01 is actually behind a bit (given its high 9.6 rating). I think this might be because it is advertised as a sequel; Cast Awakening Part 1 is listed as the first part of a series, and has a much higher download count.
Stone of Balance is also a bit of an outlier, with 118 downloads.
The further down the scores, though, the download count drops off fairly steeply.
2. Dink Smallwood HD Is Still Popular
Less popular than Pilgrim's Quest, but still very popular, are the D-Mods suggested by Dink Smallwood HD. Dink Smallwood HD has a built-in D-Mod browser that links to Mystery Island, The Savebot Massacre, Cloud Castle 2, and Cast Awakening Part 1. Seth hosts Mystery Island, but he steals my bandwidth for the others.
Cloud Castle 2 v1.0 was downloaded 193 times.
The Savebot Massacre was downloaded 165 times.
Initiation v1.0.3 was downloaded 160 times.
3. People Like Epics
There's an interesting cluster of epics in the download counts:
POTA: 136
FIAT: 122
SOB: 118
While they all have good scores, they don't really stand out in another way I can think of. And they don't really stand-out in the graph, now that I look at it:
I've also plotted the other Epics, for comparison. Most of them stay within the score-to-downloads cluster.
4. Alphabetization Is Key
One other curious outlier is the download counts of As Good As Eternity (103 downloads); if you go to the D-Mod list, this is the very first D-Mod that has a ranking of 9.0 or better.
I noticed this several years ago, and it was the reason I was going to rename my D-Mod series (again) to Ancient Legacy.
5. Other High-Download D-Mods
Rounding out all D-Mods with downloads of 75 or more, there is one huge outlier:
Somehow, Attack of the Evil Wizard has been downloaded 90 times, more than several higher-rated epics like Quest for Dorinthia. I have no idea why.
6. Contest Entries
People like sequels, I guess.
7. Recent Releases/Updates
Here's a cumulative sum chart of the recent releases. Curiously, today was a big day with lots of downloads across just about all releases.
8. Historical Comparison
Here's the download rate of Pilgrim's Quest in January of each year I have stats for:
Note that these numbers include partial downloads; the average file size reported is something around 20 MB for each file (and PQ is 35 MB). I believe my numbers above are full downloads only.
So, it's possible that the download counts are about the same, roughly. If PQ has been downloaded 237 times over the past two months, that's around 115 times a month. And if half of the earlier PQ downloads were terminated for one reason or another, that would be in the range of 115.
Data
D-Mod Download Totals
D-Mod Download Totals By Day
