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PDB Structure Download Statistics
Monthly statistics of FTP and HTTP (web) downloads and views for each PDB structure from the wwPDB sites are available (August 2007-present). These statistics are filtered to remove user or programming bias (as described here) to provide a more accurate picture.
Summary Table | Full Statistics | Search Statistics | Top 10 Downloads
Search Download Statistics
| This form searches download statistics by PDB ID or IDs. By default, the data displayed is combined from the wwPDB sites. Results can also be displayed by wwPDB site source and month. Search results may be downloaded by in a comma-separated value file (.csv) or a tab delimited data file (.tab). |
| Data are updated once per month and are aggregate for the entire month. |
Top 10 List
A top 10 list of the most popular downloads is available for the most recent month and overall since August 2007. Since these statistics are dynamically generated, they might take a few seconds to display.
Full Download Complete Reports (August 2007 - May 2009)
The complete download statistics (filtered) for all files can be downloaded here. The download includes pdbid (PDB identifier); source (wwPDB site: RCSB PDB, PDBe, or PDBj); date (year and month of downloads); ftp (filtered number of ftp downloads from that month); http (filtered number of HTTP (web) downloads/ views from that month); release_date (date of structure release).
CSV Format (filtered): Uncompressed (.csv) | Compressed (.gz)TAB Format (filtered): Uncompressed (.tab) | Compressed (.gz)
Tables with raw and filtered statistics for all files can be downloaded here. The download includes pdbid(PDB identifier); source (wwPDB site: RCSB PDB, PDBe, or PDBj); date (year and month of downloads); ftp (filtered number of ftp downloads from that month); ftp_raw (total FTP traffic from that month); http (filtered number of HTTP (web) downloads/ views from that month); http_raw (total web traffic from that month); release date (date of structure release).
CSV Format (raw and filtered): Uncompressed (.csv) | Compressed (.gz)TAB Format (raw and filtered): Uncompressed (.tab) | Compressed (.gz)
Summary Table of Download Statistics
This table reports statistics on total file downloads from all wwPDB FTP sites (in the FTP column) and the sum of HTTP downloads and web page views from all wwPDB websites (in the HTTP column).
| Month | FTP (filtered) | HTTP (filtered) |
| 2007-08 | 32,206,256 | 1,656,188 |
| 2007-09 | 19,256,689 | 2,031,657 |
| 2007-10 | 20,776,899 | 2,785,376 |
| 2007-11 | 19,788,426 | 2,575,786 |
| 2007-12 | 19,117,708 | 2,218,544 |
| 2008-01 | 15,929,730 | 4,076,132 |
| 2008-02 | 13,192,247 | 2,673,756 |
| 2008-03 | 15,696,073 | 3,255,286 |
| 2008-04 | 21,913,349 | 3,449,464 |
| 2008-05 | 17,738,067 | 3,415,453 |
| 2008-06 | 12,981,521 | 3,452,286 |
| 2008-07 | 15,897,406 | 3,688,093 |
| 2008-08 | 14,100,726 | 3,073,632 |
| 2008-09 | 14,092,424 | 3,390,226 |
| 2008-10 | 14,687,587 | 3,685,690 |
| 2008-11 | 14,876,321 | 2,981,284 |
| 2008-12 | 12,747,639 | 3,202,084 |
| 2009-01 | 14,019,787 | 3,138,190 |
| 2009-02 | 15,626,542 | 3,582,718 |
| 2009-03 | 56,863,977 | 3,932,693 |
| 2009-04 | 27,825,681 | 3,325,890 |
| 2009-05 | 24,890,254 | 3,785,453 |
Known spikes in data downloads and views:
2007-08: first month after version 3.0/3.1 files were released
2009-03: first month after version 3.15 files were released
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