What Are Report Downloads?
Report Downloads display the number of hits and visitors for each NIST Technical Series Publication PDF. Requests from web crawlers (spiders) are excluded. "Hits" counts the number of times a file was accessed or downloaded. A "visitor" is counted when a file is accessed on a particular date by a unique user. For a technical description, see the comment linked here. Please watch the brief video explaining how to navigate and search the reports located above the monthly reports and raw .csv files. Each Report Downloads page is an imported Jupyter Notebook .html file that uses python to display a searchable table from a .csv file. If you're interested in running and/or tweaking the code yourself, please visit the Jupyter notebook file, hosted on GitHub.
Video Explanation: Navigating Report Downloads Pages
A transcript of this video is also available.
Monthly Report Downloads
Fiscal Year (October 1–September 30)
Fiscal Year Quarterly
Raw CSV Files
Archived Monthly Report Downloads
The archived Microsoft Excel dashboard with report downloads from January 1, 2005-June 30, 2024 is available on Github. Please see notes below when comparing monthly report downloads (above) to the downloads in this Excel workbook.
- Note: the download statistics in this file were produced using a prioperitary software program. This program defined downloads as follows:
- the number of visitors to a particular URL based on IP address.
- If two requests from the same IP address occur more than 30 minutes apart, they are listed as unique visits.
- Requests from web crawlers (spiders) are excluded.