Any idea, how quickly the new stats should get visible?
At least so far there has been no indication about screen size stats at https://wiki.lede-project.org/stats/
Just keep in mind that screen size doesn't need to imply window size. While I use 19201200 and a dual-screen setup, my browser window tends to be restricted to 1080800 - and on most websites, a window width significantly beyond ~1024px would be wasted anyways (so the few that would require horizontal scrolling or maximising the browser window tend to be extra annoying).
There will be so random individual sizes like 1454x1048 for desktop browsers that the sizes should be grouped somehow for the stats to show anything meaningful. Otherwise there are just the fixed tablet sizes (and all desktops are in "other").
If the sizes could be grouped e.g. by 100px groups, there might be some value. e.g. [1300-1399]x[1000-1099].
Quick and dirty way to do that might be integer division by 100, or just dropping two last chars from width & height (1454x1048 --> 14x10).
Ps.
curiously, Windows 10 seems to lie about 4k display size. I have 3840x2160, but the size shown here is "screen=2560x1440&win=1251x720", so exactly 2/3 of the real size. Apparently it gets reported as 1440p size. Well, I got it now. I use 150% display scaling, so apparently Windows reports 4k as 2560x1440 for apps.
eventhough 50+ people clicked the link http://downloads.lede-project.org/stats/
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i would really like to see what hardware is most used in regard to downloads and the hardware i use, how that fit's in the picture.
new users may want to buy more popular hardware, for having less surprises.
I'm not sure that looking at stats for the download site is the best way to identify the most popular hardware. I suspect it would be relatively inaccurate due to downloads from mirror sites; the fact that people only download images from time to time; and a host of other factors.
A better choice might be a page on the wiki/forum that collects people's current hardware choice(s). Newcomers could see which brands/models have lots of LEDE people them. (There are lots of questions about how maintain it, keep it current, etc.)
Yes, that sounds like fun. There could be a whole lot of functionality added to that interaction:
Report the vendor/model of equipment
Report the version of LEDE running
Report the output of opkg list
Receive back a summary of available updates both for base LEDE as well as packages
We'd be able to display the number of people who were using LEDE as well as the relative popularity of devices/LEDE versions/etc.
I suppose we'd need to provide a switch to turn off the phone-home capability, either for "business use" that doesn't want extraneous traffic, or for people who just don't want that info disseminated.
@richb-hanover
I know download stats are not the most accurate way to look at this but at least it is something. As with all stats it are just stats. A person can look at a wiki page 1000 times if that page is inaccurate or 1000 people mar visit it because it is very accurate. Stats always need context. Without stats the context of the stats is missing so then it is all up to guesswork and assumptions. So some insight is better then no insight at all.
We can only know if date can tell us anything if we can actually see the data Download stats at least give us a general idea, also how much data we consume as a whole. Stuff like that can lead to more appreciation for the impressive work that everyone has done.
If maintenance is to much work then i sure can understand, Still it would be interesting to have some download stats to have at least some idea of what happens in that section .