POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : povray user count : Re: povray user count Server Time
10 Aug 2024 13:18:04 EDT (-0400)
  Re: povray user count  
From: Ken
Date: 31 Jan 2000 09:30:18
Message: <38959C19.51A25D27@pacbell.net>
Mark Gordon wrote:
> 
> Ken wrote:
> 
> > The statistics for the POV-Ray home page at - http://www.povray.org
> >
> > Daily Averages for the month of November 1999
> >
> > Total Hits                 97,428
> > Files Downloaded           85,479
> > Pages Accessed             40,219
> 
> This isn't just a count of the various POV-Ray packages, but also all
> the HTML documents (Pages Accessed, inflated further by the use of
> frames) and associated graphics (most of the difference between Files
> Downloaded and Pages Accessed).  Adjust by a factor of 10 or 20 to
> calculate how many people visited the sites (repeat visitors within a
> given month most likely using cached files).
> 
> -Mark Gordon

Like I said the stats are almost useless for determining the POV-Ray
user base. Even your best guess could easily be off by 30% -40% or
more.

-- 
Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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