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skyhook
06-02-2004, 09:07 PM
Hi,

I'm webmastering two intranet sites. I want to know about the situation of hit count vs transfer volume. Is the only way to get a reliable count of the number of actual downloads by calculating with the file size against the raw bytes transferred as a result of download attempts for the corresponding file?

The raw hits count should agree with the transfer volume based on the corresponding file size. In this case it's just a matter of simple arithmetic.

If I have a file of size 76kb and a hit count of 115, there should be a transfer volume of 87Mb. But if the transfer volume is only 72Mb, that means that some 20 attempts to download the file have gone astray and actually there have only been 95 downloads.

Can anyone out there help with this?

Regards,
Matt

Nevermore
06-05-2004, 06:02 AM
I would guess that download managers could be to blame, because they open multiple connections and therefore hits, but only download 1 complete file.