Posted by battye in Extensions, Modifications with the tags Extensions, MODs, statistics on November 23rd, 2016
To round out this series, we’ll look at the different categories of extensions that people like to download.
The list of extension categories is:
- Official Extensions
- Cosmetic
- Tools
- Security
- Communication
- Profile/User Control Panel
- Add-Ons
- Anti-Spam
- Entertainment
- Miscellaneous
Overview of extension categories:
It’s worth mentioning that the download figures will not add up to the total extension downloads from part four, because some extensions belong to more than one category.
Add-Ons are the most popular type of extension, most likely due to their broad nature, with all of the top 10 most downloaded extensions belonging to this category (among others).
Official Extensions get downloaded in huge numbers due to their high profile, while some of the most downloaded extensions like Board Announcements and Advanced BBCode Box 3.1 belong to the Communication category.
Interestingly Anti-Spam extensions don’t feature highly, but with that said it’s probably a good thing if additional measures are not required to keep the spambots at bay.
This brings to a conclusion the phpBB Numerology series. I hope those that appreciate their statistics – or have a general interest in phpBB and its user submitted customisations – have enjoyed these last five blog posts.
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Posted by battye in Extensions, Modifications, Uncategorized with the tags Extensions, language packs, MODs, statistics on November 9th, 2016
The third part of this series has a look the most popular language packs.
Most downloaded language packs (phpBB 3.x):
The most interesting observation, bar an anomaly with Brazilian Portuguese, is that the number of downloads corresponds quite closely with the number of total pageviews. This implies that when people download language packs, they know in advance what they want and there is little hesitation in following through to actually download it.
The average views per download for language packs is 2.29. By comparison, for phpBB 3.1 extensions that figure is a little higher at 3.53 – which suggests perhaps people casually browse more for extensions than language packs – which makes sense given for region specific forums a language pack is a necessity.
That European languages dominate the top positions in the list is not surprising either. It is evident from the make up of phpBB.com’s own community that phpBB is very popular in Europe.
In part four of phpBB Numerology, we’ll look at some of the lesser known customisations.
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Posted by battye in Extensions, Modifications with the tags Extensions, MODs, statistics on November 2nd, 2016
For the second blog post in this series I thought it would be interesting to do a direct comparison with the data presented in the 2011 post.
Most downloaded phpBB3 MODs:
There are a few figures which are unrealistic, which have been struck out accordingly. For example, “User recent activity” apparently has nearly 80,000 downloads while its customisation page has only had 5300 page views.
The most significant movers and shakers were the Advanced BBCode Box 3 MOD, which had a huge spike in downloads in moved up 18 positions from 2011. The ReIMG Image Resizer also experienced a spike, but due to its favourable position in 2011 only moved up 7 places. None of the top 10 from 2011 experienced large drops.
Most downloaded MOD/extension authors (primary authors for phpBB2 and phpBB3):
Due to the overwhelming successes of the Attachment MOD and Cash MOD for phpBB2, both Acyd Burn and Xore remain among the most downloaded phpBB MOD/extension authors of all time.
nickvergessen is the third most downloaded author of all time, despite not having any entries in the top 10 downloads for an individual customisation. This is because two of his submissions are/were highly popular and fall just outside the top 10 of their respective lists; phpBB Gallery for 3.1.x has 57,070 downloads while NV advanced last topic titles for 3.0.x has 49,372 downloads.
In part three of this series, we’ll look at the most downloaded language packs for phpBB which will also offer some insights into which regions phpBB is most popular.
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Posted by battye in Extensions, Modifications with the tags Extensions, MODs, statistics on October 26th, 2016
Five years have now passed since our first statistical journey through the archives of the customisations database (see MOD Statistics: The most downloaded MODs from the MOD Database). Armed with just one table from our database, I’m setting myself the challenge of creating five blog posts worth of in-depth (and hopefully interesting) statistical data about the way users download extensions from phpBB.com.
The obvious starting point is to revisit the original blog post, and see what the state of play is in 2016. Then, we looked at the most downloaded MOD authors and well as the most downloaded MODs of 2011 and of all time. We’ll repeat that exercise with extensions now.
Starting with the most downloaded extensions overall, we can see it’s a tight race for first place between Board Announcements, Advanced BBCode Box and Pages. Little over a thousand downloads separate the three extensions which average close to 30 downloads a day.
Most downloaded phpBB3 extensions:
Just after the half way point of 2016, Application Form and Scroll Page are favourites of the phpBB community with close to a thousand downloads each.
Most downloaded phpBB3 extensions submitted in 2016:
While dmzx has submitted more extensions than any other author with 43 extensions, it’s VSE who has been associated with the most downloads by far – 55875 in total.
Most downloaded phpBB3 extension authors (primary authors):
Stay tuned for part two of Numerology in next weeks blog post, where we’ll take a stroll down memory lane and look at the movers and shakers of phpBB 3.0.x between 2011 and 2016.
* Data accurate as of June 28, 2016; click on each image to view at full resolution
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