Surprising discovery

[jetpack_monkey]

When I post vids, I usually only offer streaming. I have occasionally posted a file link because someone requested it of me, but the streaming has always been the important part. This year after Vividcon, anoel hounded me after my vid posts went up about when a file download link would be available, so I put one up for all three new vids.

I'm pretty invested in my viewing statistics and I was disappointed to find that the streaming Vimeo embeds weren't getting that many views. However, on a whim, I checked my Apache logs and found that the download numbers for all three vids were far above and beyond what the streaming view statistics were (sometimes by a factor of 10).

So, I ask you, Internet -- do you prefer downloading your vids? Why? Should I go back and provide downloads for all of my vids?

Comments

[thefourthvine]

I occasionally watch streaming vids, but - mostly when I'm reading LJ/DW/Tumblr/Twitter, that's not when I have the ability to watch a vid, and the odds of me remember to go back are pretty much nil. When I download vids, I can watch them in a batch, when I have the time, when my kid is not around, etc. (Plus, watching in a small batch makes my viewing comprehension higher; if I switch back and forth between reading and watching, it drops. This is important because my visual comprehension skills are already so low that I can't afford to lose any.) So mostly vids that are not available for download are vids I won't ever watch. I have just accepted it.

[jetpack_monkey]

Ah, you know, I didn't even think of it that way? I know I often skip watching vids because I'm in the middle of reading stuff, but I don't come back then. Downloading would probably help with that.