On 07/03/2016 09:16 AM, Chunyang Xu wrote:
> I am not very sure if we are ruining the download statistics, but the
> user-agent we used is always different from Emacs/url.el/package.el

All packages on MELPA get three downloads per day due to bots (corollary: a one-year-old package that has about 1000 download has more or less never been downloaded by a real user). Part of the problem is that MELPA doesn't look at user agents when counting downloads.

Clément.