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Here at DPD we maintain a content delivery and ecommerce network that delivers thousands of products. This generates a mountain of data on product sizes, product prices, sales volume, most popular product types, etc. We're serious about our privacy policy though, and we never share or sell sales information about any vendor or their product performance to 3rd parties. We do however use anonymous sales and product data to plan our infrastructure and future features to to provide the best possible service to our vendors. This data includes things like product size, product price, product type (video, pdf, etc.), and how many sales they've had. This helps us gauge our storage and bandwidth requirements and is a crucial tool for us to make sure we have enough capacity to meet demand. In this post we'd like to share a few of those anonymous product statistics with you for fun and...

We're in the middle of a pretty big overhaul of the DPD user interface right now. Because we want DPD to work for the vast majority of our users (and their customers on the cart and delivery pages) we keep a close eye on our visitor platform / browser statistics. We don't compile statistics for individual stores or sites (and don't want to)- these are aggregate numbers across every product, delivery page, cart, and the DPD site itself. I thought I'd share some basic usage statistics with everyone so they can get some insight in to their fellow vendors as well as the visitors that purchase from their sites: Platform / Operating System (top 5): There are really no surprises here. Windows 85.94% Macintosh 12.49% Linux 0.78% iPhone 0.38% iPod 0.12% Browser (top 5): The Browser stats were interesting to us with Firefox being used more than Internet Explorer among...