Add addon usage statistics

[oliveryasuna]

Would be nice to track and display the total number of users who have downloaded an addon.

[samie]

Thanks! This is indeed something that we should have. Are you more interested in "Maven downloads" or "installations events" from the Directory UI?

[oliveryasuna]

I think that both serve a necessary purpose:

• Maven downloads -- Tells us how often the project is used, similar to NPM statistics.
• Installation events -- Do you mean clicking the "Install..." button and choosing one of the options from the drop-down? This would serve as an indicator to the number of projects that use the addon.

Tracking both statistics along with sorting by them would be great!

I would especially appreciate the latter. RIght now, I assume that sorting by "Popular", sorts by rating. Not everyone that uses an addon rates it. For example, I know a few people that use my addons, but most are unrated.

[oliveryasuna]

@samie Interesting quote that demonstrates why sorting by these new statistics would prove useful. While this is a very different space then Amazon, this quote demonstrates that many do not leave reviews:

On average, Amazon sellers get reviews on about 3% - 10% of their sales.

https://quantifyninja.com/a/community/amazon-marketing/sales-to-reviews-ratio-on-amazon

[samie]

Thanks, an interesting and relatable finding indeed. I'll try to move this feature forward on infrastructure level. In the meantime, if you (or anyone) have UI / UX suggestions how this could look like to user in practice, please let us know here.

[oliveryasuna]

@samie Any chance I can get access to the directory-backend artifact? That way, I could run this codebase locally and make changes to the UI.

[samie]

That is unfortunately internal and we can't probably publish it as-is, but I could think creating a interface package for mocking it.

[oliveryasuna]

@samie Yup, I'll do just that.