Comments on: Download source tracking now available on AMO

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:49:56 +0000

great job on tracking marketing spend from external sources!

Keep up the good work.

By: Downloadce

Downloadce — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 13:21:45 +0000

I can no longer track external sources with the parameter “?external-sourcename”. It seems that all downloads appear under the “unknown/NULL” source..

This makes it impossible for me to pay my partners per download any longer…

By: Gutschein

Gutschein — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:09:27 +0000

This is really great for addon developers! So we can now track return on marketing spend from external sources!

By: Maik

Maik — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:43:33 +0000

i have the same problem with the parameter “?external-sourcename”… is there an update available?…how ever…great job!

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:59:11 +0000

A great way to track return on marketing spend from external sources!

By: Butunkizlar

Butunkizlar — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:16:18 +0000

I can no longer track external sources with the parameter “?external-sourcename”. It seems that all downloads appear under the “unknown/NULL” source.

This makes it impossible for me to pay my partners per download any longer.

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:07:37 +0000

Hello,

I have a problem with my firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/46375

I can no longer track external sources with the parameter “?external-sourcename”. It seems that all downloads appear under the “unknown/NULL” source.

This makes it impossible for me to pay my partners per download any longer.

Could you please help me or tell me where to open a ticket for this issue?

Kind regards,

André

By: Turk3

Turk3 — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:11:42 +0000

Any chance we could get statistics from uninstalls as well? The idea being: what is an addons attrition rate by source? this would be super helpful for addon developers spending money to drive downloads (whether via google adwords, banner ads, etc)…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:41:09 +0000

This is great and should help with working out where my add-ons are getting installed from.

One question, at this stage I am exclusively a Thunderbird add-on developer, is there a way to simulate the src= parameter when supplying addons from my own or 3rd party websites for Thunderbird Addons?

At the moment the catagories I see are “Unknown” and “null”. Is there there any way this can be clarified? And what do these mean specifically for Thunderbird?

By: Vadersapien

Vadersapien — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:56:32 +0000

The “Download Source” area for my add-on “Pacfox” only has 3 options: “Unknown”, “Null” and “Add-on Collector”…any idea where the rest are?

Also, on the drop down lists under “Application”, whenever I change a value it gives me this:

[The page at addons.mozilla.org says:]
Caught exception: undefined

Details: [Exception... "An invalid or illegal string was specified" code: "12" nsresult: "0x8053000c (NS_ERROR_DOM_SYNTAX_ERR)" location: "https://addons.mozilla.org/js/simile/amo-bundle.js Line: 8255"]