PowerMac download statistics?

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Jan 8, 2017, at 08:47, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2017-01-06 23:33, Clemens Lang wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 04:48:37PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>> I'm looking for statistics on the number of Macports users and the
>>> number of PowerMac users.
>>> 
>>> Does MacPorts track the statistics? If so, are they publicly
>>> available?
>> 
>> I think portmgr@ has access to our CDN's statistics, which is probably
>> the best resource to figure this out.
> 
> The CDN itself only offers some basic statistics like Top 50 files
> downloaded. To get something like downloads per OS version, we would
> need to process the raw logs (available via API for last five days).
> If anyone is interested in working on this, we could figure out a way to
> extract anonymized logs for processing.
> 
> Another thing we might consider would be including the OS version into
> the user agent string in our libcurl wrapper in Pextlib1.0. That would
> make it easier to filter instead of matching on the requested resource
> path while excluding bots and crawlers.

If you're concerned about misleading traffic from bots, you could filter by "user agent contains 'MacPorts/'" and "filename ends with '.ppc.tbz2.rmd160'".