Downloads per week counter is broken

[robcresswell]

I checked my little side project and noticed the downloads per week had fallen from something like 1500 to 30; no big deal, its just a utility. Then I checked Vue and React, clearly major projects, and both of their downloads have also fallen off a cliff. Has some new caching mechanism come come online and stopped things being counted correctly? Or is the counter not working at all?

For reference:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/react
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/vue

[Reinmar]

Noticed that too (e.g. here https://www.npmjs.com/package/@ckeditor/ckeditor5-editor-classic).

[Reinmar]

It's yet another issue in the last two weeks ;/ None of the issues was a complete disaster itself, but the frequency of them and little (or zero) response from your side leaves a terrible impression.

First, the registry went down. Then, readmes disappeared. Now, another issue.

[hodgef]

There's definitely an issue with the download counts. React for example currently shows just 6 downloads/week. I think the npm team should be more communicative about maintenance changes. They must have noticed this problem already yet we haven't heard back. They should definitely monitor the issue tracker more closely and not just the support email.

[hodgef]

It seems npm has acknowledged the issue here: https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/b4ktc38pypd1 via @npmstatus on Twitter

[jwalton]

They added CloudFlare as a cache in front of the registry. This was the cause of most of the issues over the past few weeks, and I'm guessing is this cause of this also. There was a very interesting thread about this from one of the Yarn guys here.

[Reinmar]

This issue can be closed now.

[robcresswell]

Appears to be solved now. Unfortunately looks like the data couldn't be retroactively reclaimed, but I guess we'll keep that as the week that every web developer in the world took some holiday 😄

[atomiks]

I think it's broken again.