Project Stats Page Overview
Project Stats pages provide the following metrics over the project lifetime:
- Downloads - downloads includes all publicly-available releases, source code changesets, and wiki attachments
- Application Analytics - application runtime usage from instrumented binaries
- Page Views - page views indicate the total number of views on any page on the project
- Visits - a visit is a series of one or more page views from the same browser within a short timeframe
- Referrals - the list of referring sites
Statistical data for Page Views, Visits and Referrals are provided by WebTrends.
Interpreting Data
The following screenshots are for the
xUnit project, taken on March 10, 2008.
Monthly View
Stats shown in a monthly view are the totals for the indicated day. For example, in the graph below, there were 273 page views on Feb 15, 2008.
Yearly View
Stats shown in a yearly view are the totals for the indicated week. For example, in the graph below, there were 8909 page views during the week of Sept 22, 2007. (Sep 22- Sep 29).
Last 30 days View
Stats shown in a daily view are the total stats for the indicated day. For example, in the graph below, there were 364 page views on Feb 19, 2008.
Referrals
The first column shows the URL for the referring site.
The second column shows the number of visits from the referring site within the selected timeframe (last 30 days, monthly view, yearly view, etc.)
The third column shows the number of visits from the referring site for the previous timeframe and the difference (+/-) from the current timeframe.
The example below is for the month of February.
Application Analytics
This capability is provided by the new
Runtime Intelligence Service from
PreEmptive Solutions. The Runtime Intelligence Service allows for developers to inject usage instrumentation directly into application binaries. When the application is run by an end user, the instrumentation will collect analytics data from the application. No personally identifiable information is ever collected and applications can include opt-out dialogues.
CodePlex users instrument their .NET applications via the latest release of
Dotfuscator Software Services Community Edition included in Visual Studio 2010. Application analytic reports will then be available on CodePlex from the project statistics page with the ability to view more advanced statistics through a portal hosted by PreEmptive Solutions.
Getting started with instrumenting your application is easy. PreEmptive Solutions has created a
sample application and a very thorough walkthrough that demonstrates this process. Once you have instrumented your application, you will need to link your CodePlex project to your Runtime Intelligence Service Application ID (which was created in the first step in the walkthrough). As a project coordinator, edit the project details and enter the value as shown below.
Should your startup / shutdown instrumentation mean something different, you can change the display name, which will be used instead of “Application Runs” when viewing the statistics in CodePlex. After you save these settings, CodePlex will begin importing the application runtime usage on a daily basis.
FAQ
- When were the stats pages introduced? - Project stats pages were introduced in the March 10, 2008 deployment of CodePlex.
- How often is data collected? - We provide data up until the previous day. For example, you will not see today's data for another 24 hours.
- Why do the referrals sometimes show a N/A? - The non-available is the number of referrals that were unavailable by WebTrends.
