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How are your statistics calculated?
The Top Items score for a given recording equals the arithmetic mean of the number of downloads per IP address per day for the last 5 days, or for the length of time it has been posted, whichever is shorter.
The total downloads for a given recording equal the sum of two values. The first value is the total number of downloads through December 6th, 2007. The second value is the total number of downloads per IP address per day from December 7th, 2007 and onward.
The phrase "number of downloads" refers to the sum of the bandwidth consumed in downloading a media file for a given recording, divided by the size of that file as it exists on the server's file system. This accounts for multi-threaded downloading, which appears in our server log files as several incomplete downloads of different segments of a file. It also accounts for differing file sizes among the media files associated with a given recording.
Our statistics are updated several times per day by an automated process. Due to page caching, these figures may be delayed by up to 2 hours.
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