Finally deployed the "Display by Category" features of the Software Downloads page (https://www.uvm.edu/software). Calculated stats.
Back on July 1, CIT quietly updated both the format and the function of the CIT Software Downloads page at https://www.uvm.edu/software . On December 27, the pages were updated again to sport a new "Display by software Category" feature designed to make it easier for you to find what you need. And to serve our customers better, we are now keeping records of who downloaded what when.
We now have some statistics on what is hot and what is not, and we have the (as yet untried by theoretically possible) ability to send email to everyone who downloaded Product Q if and when Product Q is updated.
Here are some statistics from the first six months or so of downloads data:
- 6561 distinct users requested 30120 downloads, an average of 4.6 downloads per person.
- 27795 were Windows software (92%), 2334 were Macintosh downloads (8% of total)
- 9637 were Windows Antivirus (32% of all downloads, 34% of Windows downloads)
- 554 were Mac antivirus (1.7% of all downloads and 24% of all Macintosh downloads)
- 2820 were Windows Spybot downloads (9%), 1000 were Windows XP Service Pack (3%). Add that to the Antivirus downloads and we might state that 45% of all downloads were some kind of Windows fixes (13457downloads)
The numbers:
| Windows Downloads | ||||
| Number of Downloads | Vendor | Product name | Platform | Product version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9638 | Symantec | Antivirus | Windows | 8.1 — off campus version |
| 2820 | Safer Networking | Spybot – Search & Destroy | Windows | 1.3 |
| 2678 | ssh | Secure Shell | Windows | 3.2.9 (Build 283) |
| 2541 | Cisco | VPN Client | Windows | 4.0.3(f) |
| 1729 | Adobe | Acrobat Reader | Windows | 6.0.1 |
| 1081 | Wolfram Institute | Mathematica | Windows | 5.01 Faculty |
| 1017 | Mozilla Foundation | Firefox | Windows | 1.0 |
| 1000 | Microsoft | Windows XP Service Pack | Windows | 1 |
| 945 | Oracle | Calendar | Windows | 9.0.4.2.1 |
| 919 | Minitab | Minitab | Windows | 14.12 |
| 855 | Mozilla Foundation | Mozilla | Windows | 1.7.1 |
| 389 | Eudora | Eudora | Windows | 5.2.1 |
| 361 | Novell | Netware Client | Windows | v4.83.2.5 – FINAL |
| 292 | Renex | Bluezone 3270 | Windows | |
| 243 | Mozilla Foundation | Thunderbird | Windows | 1.0 |
| 233 | Microsoft | Windows 2000 Service Pack | Windows | 4 |
| 206 | Oracle | Calendar Sync for Palm | Windows | 9.0.4.2.4 |
| 189 | Thomson ISI ResearchSoft | EndNote | Windows | 8.0.1 |
| 180 | SCT | Banner | Windows | For Windows 2000 |
| 173 | StarNet | X-Win32 | Windows | v5.4.0 |
| 158 | Citrix | ICA | Windows | |
| 103 | Respondus | Respondus | Windows | 2.0.8 |
| 25 | Microsoft | Windows Hot Fix | Windows | For Windows XP |
| 19 | Disruptive Innovations | Nvu | Windows | 0.50 |
| 4 | GAIM | GAIM | Windows | 1.0.0 |
| Macintosh Downloads | ||||
| Number of Downloads | Vendor | Product Name | Platform | Product version |
| 554 | Symantec | Antivirus | MacOSX | 9.0 |
| 522 | Cisco | VPN Client | MacOSX | 4.0.2 |
| 311 | University of Michigan | Fugu | MacOSX | 1.1.0 |
| 158 | Wolfram Institute | Mathematica | MacOSX | 5.0 Student |
| 141 | Adobe | Acrobat Reader | MacOSX | 6.0.1 |
| 136 | Thomson ISI ResearchSoft | EndNote | MacOSX | 7.0 |
| 123 | Oracle | Calendar | MacOSX | 9.0.4.2 |
| 115 | Mozilla Foundation | Firefox | MacOSX | 1.0 |
| 92 | Mozilla Foundation | Mozilla | MacOSX | 1.7 |
| 54 | Eudora | Eudora | MacOSX | 5.2.1 |
| 44 | Citrix | ICA | MacOSX | |
| 37 | Oracle | Calendar Sync for Palm | MacOSX | 9.0.4.2 |
| 34 | Mozilla Foundation | Thunderbird | MacOSX | 1.0 |
| 8 | WebDAV.org | Goliath | MacOSX | 1.0.1 |
| 5 | Disruptive Innovations | Nvu | MacOSX | 0.50 |
