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How/why do I have more downloads than views?

A topic by NotExplosive created Sep 15, 2022 Views: 250 Replies: 1
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I was looking at my analytics and I've noticed a weird anomaly. Lately I've been getting pretty big spikes in download numbers for my games. Normally a given game gets one or two downloads per week but lately I've had days where I get 14, 16, and 22 downloads. The weird thing is: I see more downloads than views. That means (I think) that someone went to my game  page and hit the download button multiple times? That would make sense if the difference were 1 or 2 but it's like a 3:1 difference. Here are some examples:

  • 2022-8-18: Lay Down Your Roots got 8 views and 22 downloads.
  • 2022-8-24: Lay Down Your Roots got 9 views and 14 downloads.
  • 2022-9-10: Lay Down Your Roots got 3 views and 16 download.
  • 2202-9-10: Function Conjunction got 2 view and 14 downloads.

What's going on here? Is someone going to my game pages and hitting the download button over and over?

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It's possible, if they're having trouble downloading for some reason. But that's a pretty big difference. Dunno.

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