[wp-hackers] Plugin usage info

[Andrew Nacin]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Michael Clark <
dc153464a11bcf5aeb18180db28017fb.wp-hackers at planetmike.com> wrote:

> At 6:05 PM -0300 2/25/11, Alvaro wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to get info about how many blogs are using the plugins I've
>> developed?
>>
>> Maybe WordPress should offer this info on the plugins page, like it does
>> with stats.
>>
>
> It seems that Alvaro's question never got answered. Why doesn't WP make the
> number available? It could be added easily to the stats page visible only to
> the plugin's developer(s), or on the Admin tab. I'm not saying that plugins
> should be ranked by popularity based on downloads, as we all know those
> numbers can be fudged.
>

Otto answered:

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> No, there is no way to get actual numbers. Only statistics are kept, not
the raw data.
>

Because of the inconsistencies in reporting and aggregation, it's not
reliable to keep (or especially display) anything beyond percentages which
are normalized over a time period.

Nacin