: How to calculate the actual count of downloads through bandwidth I have a freeware hosted on my website, and use webalizer to track the traffic. I can get the data of my installation file

@Angie530

Is the total downloads 6115 accurate
here?


No - the "Top URL's by KBytes" statistic is compiled from total KB downloaded, not from total completed downloads - this means that five people who downloaded 20% of the file would be counted as 1,313 KB each (and, in total, those five people would count as 6565 KB) ... but 20% of the download across five different users does not equate to one full download in practice.


What does the 21753 Hits mean? 2/3 of
the hits failed or people using
multi-thread download tools?


21,753 hits means that the file was requested from your webserver 21,753 times - webalizer makes no distinction between human and bot traffic here, and a single visitor may very well be issuing multiple requests against the file.

You'll need to review your actual server logs to see HTTP/1.1 206 - Partial Content requests for those users resuming file downloads or using parallel download tools.

Webalizer is not the best tool for calculating the total number of complete downloads - you may be better off putting up a script which serves file contents and can track partial and complete downloads by user IP address or a cookie.

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