An advantage that Bintray (jCenter) has is download stats.
Download stats are definitely planned. Probably the next big feature.
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@jitpack-io You might want to merge this issue with your own #6 (and close this one).
Would you reveal that this feature will be available as paid one or free? I'm just curious, and no answer is ok :-)
Good news everyone!
Starting to roll out download statistics. Once you are Signed In you might see something like this:

At the moment just showing weekly and monthly downloads but there'll be more improvements over time.
The stats are for all files (pom,aar,javadocs) that are downloaded from your project.
@jitpack-io any chance to have this as a badge like this:
@HeinrichReimer Experimental download badges:

and

For example:
Wow, that was fast! Huge thanks to you @jitpack-io and thanks for this awesome service!
@jitpack-io after some testing now it appears that the badges need very long time to load which causes GitHub to display a placeholder sometimes.

@HeinrichReimer We've added caching to download stats which should get rid of these timeouts. If you still encounter it let us know. Thanks for reporting!
@jitpack-io Thank you!
Any chance stats badge could show downloads per tag (version) not totals?
@jitpack-io what happened to the statistics info on the page??
are download stats not a public info on the site? Not beneficial to have people seeing how much OSS gets used?
Are downloads counted as one per IP address or something like that?
Download count gets incremented when a file from the repository is downloaded, from any IP address.
Coming up next - downloads per each version. In fact, you can already get download stats via api. For example: https://jitpack.io/api/downloads/com.github.philjay/mpandroidchart/v3.0.2
The download stat via api always gives me this:
{"week":0,"month":0}
The Jitpack dashboard does not load the weekly and months stats all the time. I have to keep refreshing the page to see it. And some times that data never shows up. Please take a look.
What about total downloads?
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What about total downloads?