Since ModDB's v4 launch in November 2007, the site has been quietly collecting daily statistics such as the number of profile visitors, downloads, videos and news reads you serve to our community. Until now these statistics have been hidden, so there was no way to answer questions like:
- How popular is my mod? Is it getting more or less popular?
- How many downloads are you serving (including new and old files)?
- Did the news I post on the homepage increase my mods popularity? What about the headline?
Now, thanks to the new statistics system - you can view all of this information and much much more. In fact you can view games, mods, groups, engines and even your own personal statistics. Accessing these statistics is simple, on download, video and profile pages you will generally find text like Views: 10 (2 today) - look on right right menu here to see this. All you need to do is click this link to view the corresponding daily statistics. An example of what the stats look like for the HL2 Jailbreak mod is shown below:
These statistics update daily. Also like I have done above (just like a youtube video), you can embed this graph on your mods homepage, blog and other sites so you can track your contents popularity without even visiting ModDB (or you can show it to your friends and brag - your choice).
That's it Intense NO MORE CNN FOR YOU :D
Excellent feature. Can't wait to try it out.
This is exactly what developers need. It seems like the equivelent of what Steam provides for those who put their games on steam.
NOoooooooo MY STOCKS ARE DROPPPING :(!!!!
Great feature, already revisiting a ton of mod pages just to see this in action, well done.
sweet, this will save me tons of time checking the downloads page of my mods daily to see how popular they are! thanks MODDB!
thats niceeeeessss
Now we just need an compare to other mods feature. =o
Hell yes, +++++!! I've been waiting for you guys to implement this kind of stuff. Feel free to expand it, more statistics always = better.
I'm thinking of creating a "beacon" for you guys to add to your homepage, so the number of visitors your homepage receives also shows up on this graph and you can compare that with the number of ModDB profile visitors you get. Is that something you are interested in?
Yes that would be great, the top-lists of moddb are semi-defunct now (they don't get as many votes anymore) and this would be a very welcome addition to a mod's website in my opinion.
Topsites will be coming back
That would be cool. Like I said, more statistics always = better.
What would also be really sweet is to be able to see what sites are linking to your ModDB profile and thus where your traffic is coming from.
lol i like the first and 3rd comments but this is really a good feature thanks moddb
Oh cool, I like this feature.
Nice work INtense! You're a right code demon! And thanks for using Jailbreak in the example!
Thanks, got a few more updates coming - but I figured mod teams could put this to use.
Ok.. there is a real bad bug/problem. :P
If you type in a date that is not yet available (for example 2009-01-01 - 2008-11-05) firefox/flash will crash/hang up.
Edit: Same in Internet Explorer.. def. Flash related.
I didn't actually code the Flash Graph - only the backend stats system so there isn't much I can do about this. I will continually update the Flash software so hopefully this will be patched. Besides if you enter bogus dates it is your own damn fault for the error ;)
Just wanted to mention. :P
Id like to see a spot where it gives the downloads/visits statistics ... although it could be hard/distortive to do when people release multiple downloadable files :/ ..
The way it is now, it just shows what mods are watched more ... i would like to know the ratio so i can see which mods are just being watched alot, and which mods are actually good for a download ...
Great!
Awesome Stuff guys...
You are always upping the bar and things like this just keep us coming back.
Great stuff.
This is bad, I check up on moddb too much as it is!
great stuff tho, great to hear topsites is coming back too!!! good work sir!
Pure genius :D. Love the style of these moddb seems to be growing bigger and better every time i visit it.
Hah this is funny .. I thought about mod statistics the other day while I was on my way home and even wanted to suggest it on the forums but I forgot about it again
GJ :)
Hmmm... Interesting feature.
Thanks :) Do you mind telling which frameworks modDB uses? Zend Framework? Or just normal PHP files?
ModDB is mostly custom built - however we use JQUERY for Javascript Jquery.com and a heavily modified Code Igniter for PHP Codeigniter.com
Great addition! Can't wait to see the statistics for E:TCW...
Thank you for all the hard work you are putting into this portal... ;-)
Great work INtense!
this feature is awesome
I want to hug you Intense.
This is an extremely nice feature.
Since we are naturally a more-than-average nerdy group of people, we of course love statistics and numbers and such, this sort of thing is like an early Christmas present!