{"id":7644,"date":"2016-01-20T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=7644"},"modified":"2016-01-20T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T23:54:09","slug":"archiving-amo-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2016\/01\/20\/archiving-amo-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Archiving AMO Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the advantages of listing an add-on or theme on addons.mozilla.org<\/a> (AMO) is that you’ll get statistics on your add-on\u2019s usage. These stats, which are covered by the Mozilla privacy policy<\/a>, provide add-on developers with information such as the number of downloads and daily users, among other insights.<\/p>\n

Currently, the data that generates these statistics can go back as far as 2007, as we haven’t had an archiving policy. As a result, statistics take up the vast majority of disk space in our database and require a significant amount of processing and operations time. Statistics over a year old are very rarely accessed, and the value of their generation is very low, while the costs are increasing.<\/p>\n

To reduce our operating and development costs, and increase the site\u2019s reliability for developers, we are introducing an archiving policy.<\/p>\n

In the coming weeks, statistics data over one year old<\/strong> will no longer be stored in the AMO database, and reports generated from them will no longer be accessible through AMO\u2019s add-on statistics pages. Instead, the data will be archived and maintained as plain text files, which developers can download. We will write a follow-up post when these archives become available.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve chosen to keep your add-on\u2019s statistics private, they will remain private when stats are archived. You can check your privacy settings by going to your add-on in the Developer Hub<\/a>, clicking on Edit Listing<\/strong>, and then Technical Details<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The total number of users and other cumulative counts on add-ons and themes will not be affected and these will continue to function.<\/p>\n

If you have feedback or concerns, please head to our forum post<\/a> on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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