Unique Download

Learn what unique downloads mean on Nexus Mods, a website for modding games. Unique downloads are the number of times a file is downloaded by a unique user, not the number of downloads. Total downloads include people downloading multiple times.

Unique downloads only counts each account once. A "Unique" download refers to a set of metrics specifically developed by Libsyn. The metrics differentiate between raw requests for downloads and download requests from single users.

I believe a unique download is a single download from 1 IP address (or user, I am not 100% sure how it tracks it). This means if I was to download a mod you made 5 times it would say: 5 Downloads, 1 Unique Download. A user can then add this meta file from the site to our mod manager Vortex and Vortex will fetch all the download links for the mods, download them (i.e.

the mod authors still get the unique downloads for that new user), and install the mods the same way the original user (the curator of that mod list) has them installed (including conflict resolution) on their end. 38 votes, 54 comments. I was not pulling in many unique downloads to begin with (roughly 11,000/month) but starting in August, that number got.

The unique download count isn't 1-for-1 mapping to DP earned with the new algorithm so having this data next to the amount your mod earned doesn't make sense anymore. Unique Downloads is the ammount of downloads per IP/account (Don't know which one it is actually). So if I download one of your mods twice, it'll count 2 for Downloads and 1 for Unique Downloads.

I'm puzzled about the unique download count of one of my mods. There are three different versions of the mod, so three separate download counts and the unique downloads don't sync with the count at the top left of the page. Current state, as pictured below: So, answer me this: How does 8+3+4 not.

How it works The system will run a check once a day to count Unique Downloads for every Mod Author across the site. When a Mod Author's Unique Downloads across all their mods (including historically Hidden, Archived or Deleted mods) pass certain milestones, they will be given the following Premium Membership rewards for free.