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How to Track Number of Downloads without using Plugin in Wordpress

Written on July 21st, 2009 at 5:43 am by Shunmugha

6 Comments

Its pretty much useful to track how many times a file has been downloaded which shows how well the resource has reached readers attention.

For wordpress users there are plugins available to do the job but if they are already using many plugin and adding up to it new ones might increase the blog/site load time.So here is simple way to solve this problem.

Here is a site to track number of times a file has been downloaded.

Site is Dstats

Any types of site or blog can use it.

How to use it?

1. Choose file you want to monitor

Eg: http://yourwebsite/yourfile.mp3

2. Make DStats.net HTML code for the file

    <a href="http://dstats.net/download.php?file=http://yourwebsite/yourfile.mp3">My Song.mp3</a>

3. Put DStats.net HTML code into your web pages and start online download monitoring of your files now.

4.Done.


How to access the stats?

Access Stats Online:

http://dstats.net/dstats.php?file=http://yourwebsite/yourfile.mp3

To display the Stats:

Use the below snippet 

 <script type='text/javascript'
 src='http://dstats.net/dstatsjs.php?file=http://yourwebsite/yourfile.mp3'>
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
 document.write(dsdlcounter(dsCounter));
</script>

Say bye ,bye to Download Monitoring plugin’s:)

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6 Responses to “How to Track Number of Downloads without using Plugin in Wordpress”


  1. Custom term paper

    1 year ago

    i liked ur blog and also now i am following u on twitter. here is my profile page link if u wanna do the same :- http://tinyurl.com/lnvta7

    and also which wp theme do u recommend for blogs best for SEO, visitors and crawling purpose ? right now i am using Thesis theme but its a paid one. cannot afford for many other blogs right now.

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  2. admin

    1 year ago

    Any light weight theme which does not have much of javascript’s and flash can be the right choice..


  3. George Serradinho

    1 year ago

    Thanks for sharing this info. I’m using a WordPress plugin to upload and keep track of my download files.

    I do understand what you have tried to do here, but using another site to keep track might be dangerous. What if that site goes down or is dead. Where do you get your stats from? You would have to start all over as you might not remember what the last number of downloads was. This is just my opinion.


  4. admin

    1 year ago

    Ya i feel thats the only problem George…

    You Can access your stat here

    For example:
    http://dstats.net/dstats.php?file= http://yourwebsite/yourfile.mp3

    Also i have updated the post..


  5. Rajesh Kanuri

    10 months ago

    this really decreases the burden of plugins on the wordpress blog..
    .-= Rajesh Kanuri´s last blog ..Browse Fast With Internet Explorer =-.


  6. Marek

    10 months ago

    Hi,
    we are really happy to see Your satisfaction with our DStats.net services. Please, feel free to send us any suggestions to help us to improve our services, you are always welcome.
    In the meantime, we did many improvements to our services, e.g. geolocation, searchengine indexing status, using of short/nice URLs, traffic statistics for multiple URLs, list of popular web pages etc. Try it and let us know about your satisfaction, thank you.
    Marek, DStats.net (info@dstats.net)

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