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The itch.io website bug with traffic

A topic by A4ch Team created Dec 23, 2022 Views: 342 Replies: 4
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At 11 views of the game page I get 22 downloads. There's no way it's an accident, or suddenly 11 people decided to download 22 times. And this is within an hour after the last visit to the developer's page.

So how much progress am I actually making in downloads and views?

Moderator

...You realize that people sometimes need to retry a download several times. It's probably fine.

Please submit this request to a technician. Because your answer doesn't explain how 11 people suddenly downloaded the game twice each, and so abruptly. It is clear from the graph, that the game does not have such popularity.

Moderator (1 edit)

...You realize that the number of downloads being exactly twice the number of visits can be a coincidence?

Admin

The download counter is incremented when someone attempts to download a file on your page, the views counter is incremented when someone views your project’s main page.

There is no requirement that someone views your projet’s main page before starting a download. Just a few examples of how someone might download your project without viewing the page first: they could be downloading through our app, using a download key, or accessing a download via their library.

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