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The definition of a "busy" web-page

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:03 am
by php12342005
I am working for a small software company and all of our products are C++.

we add our software on web-pages for free downloads (standard editions).

currently we have around 120 downloads/per-day for each software.

I need youe evaluation about the definition of a "busy" page or "busy" downloads for a single software.

1) over 50 downloads/per-day
2) over 100
3) over 200
4) .......

remember, we are a small software company (not Microsoft).
Please give out your opnion (amount of downloads) so that I can evaluate our situation.

thx

:P

120-150

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:05 am
by method_man
id say about 150-200 a day would be busy

matt

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:09 am
by feyd
I'd say there isn't really a set level.. it may be more a ratio of visits to downloads. It can also involve length of time the software has been available (individual version differenciation may help or hurt, not sure), it could even involve user ratings, or market demographics target for the software.. In other words, it's very specific to you and your products.

post the site

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:10 am
by method_man
Post the link to your site so we can check it out

matt

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:13 am
by feyd
forgot to add that you can also look at the proportion of traffic product x gets to the overall traffic on the site. This can be done by analyzing the access logs..

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:29 am
by Trenchant
What are your server specifications? What kind of an internet connection do you have?

If you have a slow internet connection and multiple people want to download the same file at once then I would consider it "busy".


How many downloads/day doesn't really matter as long as you have the resources. Keep track of when most downloads are and compare using that.

Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:25 pm
by Ambush Commander
If you've got a really popular download product and are specifically concerned about bandwidth issues, consider using BitTorrent or a similar distributed P2P protocol to distribute your files.