Download (clone) statistics

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For open source projects it is helpful to have download statistics to gauge project popularity. We should add basic download statistics.

Original request

For an open source project, it is important to have access to download statistics. It seems that this feature is not available in gitlab (it is possible with github) That is very strange. Is there a reason for this ? Are there plans to add this feature ?

Proposal

• Add chart showing the number of daily cloners for the last two weeks or 30 days
• Add chart showing the number of unique daily cloners (based on user id, falling back to IP address) for the last two weeks or 30 days
• Add Traffic API resource to retrieve clone statistics

{
  "count": 100,
  "uniques": 50,
  "clones": [
    {
      "timestamp": "2018-01-10T00:00:00Z",
      "count": 10,
      "uniques": 5
    },
    ...
  ]
}

Mockup

Add new area in "Repository analytics" (Analyze > Repository analytics) called Download statistics.

• Dropdown to select between Last 14 days and Last 30 days
  • The segmented control is being depreciated.
  • Display the date range of the selected dropdown option.
• Use single stat blocks for Total downloads and Unique downloads
  • The purpose is to sum up all of the daily downloads over the selected time period as an overview.
• Line chart to show total and unique daily downloads over the time period
  • Ensure that a legend is present
  • On hover, should display date, total daily download count, and unique daily download count.

Future

A future improvement would be to track download statistics of binaries attached to releases

Outcome of spike

Find out if data already exists in gitaly and how to expose it for the frontend to consume #15807 (comment 1447246723)

See comment #15807 (comment 1515798811)