I’ve been using Till’s Downloads Pepper ever since it came out, and it’s great. However, I’m finding some limitations that I’d like to discuss.
Maybe this will encourage further development of the pepper by Till (I hope so!), or maybe someone else can step up and help me. Oh, and I’ll be more than happy hit the Paypal jar of whoever does this :-)
Limitations of the Downloads pane
- I’m tracking a lot of files. I can only individually track 15 files, whose names are chopped off (in my case this makes it impossible to know what they are), and they don’t even seem to be the most popular ones.
- I have huge traffic spikes in the graph, but I never know which file(s) was responsible for it. I’d love to be able to click there and see which files were so popular on that day.
- I haven’t found much use for the “average downloads” figure, especially the average hourly downloads. Usually it’s so low in the graph I can’t even see it.
Limitations of the Files pane
- “Most popular” tab: I think a column with the number of referrers would be a useful addition.
- “Referrers” tab: can downloads with no referrer be tracked separately?
- “Watched” tab: I’d love to see more data here, either referrers or some download trends a la Trends pepper.
In fact, Trends applied to Downloads would be killer. I’m going to post separately about this.
Again, thanks Till for creating this Pepper!