Andrew Sly wrote:
Per Michael Hart's suggestion, I would also love to have more figures per category, perhaps also per language etc. Not sure if they are difficult to generate, but I love stats and there couldn't be enough of those on gutenberg.net in my view.
I seem to recall seeing a page analyzing downloads from a PG ftp site. (can't remember which one.) It had a huge mass of statistics, including most often requested files, average files sizes, domains downloaded from, breakdown by file types, etc.
Start from: http://www.gutenberg.net/internal/stats/ user: books pass: internal there are stat files for the web page "pages" and the archive "files". Though the files page says ftp.ibiblio.org, all HTTP and FTP requests to the file archive are analyzed there. There are daily pages and a monthly page. Caveat emptor: many of the data there can be misleading if you dont know the tricks of the site. They are meant as a tool for me to watch if something goes terribly wrong, not as a download counting tool. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.net