Hi!
I wonder if this has ever been discussed:
As far as i can tell the data for “download” in the analytics is based on a query of “wp_podlove_downloadintentclean”. The number of downloads seems to be based on a count (*).
If so, the label of download should be more a “download of fragments of an episode” and not “downloads” because this suggests that as many users have downloaded a full episode.
Or as a different approach maybe the query could be altered to user_agent_ID and media_file_id. In this case a download would be counted for a user who downloaded many fragments of an episode as one download.
Maybe i am completely wrong?
Hi,
If I understand you correctly you worry multiple download requests by the same user/device are counted multiple times. We already try to generate more “unique” requests by using a request_id
, which includes the user agent and IP in hashed form.
The “Data Cleanup” section here explains it: https://docs.podlove.org/podlove-publisher/guides/download-analytics.html#data-cleanup
exactly! that is what “concerns” me.
See attached files:
I got 5 requests, all having the same request id but in the analytics module this is shown as 5 “downloads”. 1 person listened to 1 episode of my podcast but looking at the analytics module i would think there where 5 people listening to 1 episode.
Hope i am not totally wrong. Thanks for looking into the topic.
If i can provide more information, please let me know!!
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