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How do you count streaming data ?


Hi,

I took a look at some data from jwplatform.
Aaand i got:

258,453 embeds, 303 plays, 190 uniques, 26 completes
with total of 18.5 GB streaming

I had on that day 12 videos available that i included with one line embeds. Something like :

<script src="//content.jwplatform.com/players/"+video_key+"-"+video_player+".js"></script>
And there is nobody else using my videos in any other way.
My videos have

2.3 MB - 3.8 MB - 9.5 MB --- 0/303 times played
3.1 MB - 5.3 MB - 13.8 MB --- 1/303 time played
1.4 MB - 2.6 MB - 7.1 MB --- 18/303 times played
6.5 MB - 11.3 MB - 26.3 MB --- 130/303 times played
2.8 MB - 5.1 MB - 12.5 MB/ --- 3/303 times played
4.8 MB - 8.3 MB - 20.3 MB --- 109/303 times played
11 MB - 17.4 MB - 40.5 MB --- 10/303 times played
1.3 MB - 2.4 MB - 6.6 MB --- 0/303 times played
1.7 MB - 2.8 MB - 7.7 MB --- 8/303 times played
19.7 MB - 33.2 MB - 81.6 MB --- 6/303 times played
0.5 MB - 1.6 MB - 6.1 MB --- 24/303 times played
1.5 MB - 2.6 MB - 6.5 MB --- 0/303 times played

Sizes i took from
dashboard.jwplayer.com/#/content/detail?property=...&key=...

And 303 plays i got looking at:
https://dashboard.jwplayer.com/#/analytics/overview?&dateRangeStart="date_start"&dateRangeEnd="date_end"....
and also here, where i got also the times played/video
https://dashboard.jwplayer.com/#/analytics/content/detail?mediaID="media_id"&dateRangeStart="date_start"&dateRangeEnd="date_end"...

But most importantly, from this i got that the average size of my played video is:
each video times played*(320px in MB value - 640px in MB value - 1280px in MB value) / times all videos were played
comes to an average played video of

5,7 MB - 15,11 MB - 22,58 MB (320px - 640px - 1280px)

If every video was played at 1280px every time and streamed completely, total stream for this period would be 7GB
22,58 MB * 303 played times = 6.977,22MB

Lets say its 7 GB, and that is significantly lower then 18.5 GB streaming i see in my account overview...
Can someone please elaborate on how you count the streaming data ?
There is 12GB or 66% of my total streaming data i can't currently find (in every video was played at 1280px every time and streamed completely scenario)

Regards,
Tony

6 Community Answers

Donni

JW Player Support Agent  
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Streaming is calculated from CDN access logs and reflects all bytes delivered to end users regardless of device or player. The fact that your embeds are so high, but the plays are so low tells me that people are watching the videos, but outside of the player. Can you provide some live examples of how you’re embedding?

t...

User  
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Thank you very much for your answer.
Im sorry, but providing live link is a bit difficult at the moment.
As you said, my embeds are so high. Its because the video is there, just noone is clicking.
I did some more math, do you think its possible that the embed alone is doing the extra traffic. Since i have 258,453 embeds. That means i load the player js script every time. Can you confirm that the script loading is also a part of the total stream value ?
There are also other matadata to the embed ? Like the thumbnail photo ?

So how much do you think one embed of traffic is in total ? Without the video ever being played ? Is this also a part of the streaming i see in my account overview ?

Donni

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Only the video content counts, not the player script or the poster image. Do you have preload: set?

t...

User  
0 rated :

My preload is set to none.
Always use Flash when available and Use HTML5 for HLS playback are set to true.
Other player setup is pretty much default.

Donni

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Since you have the ability to contact us directly via the SUBMIT A CASE link in your JW Dashboard I would advise you to provide a few links to pages that have very high embeds and follow the instructions here to create a live page that shows us how you typically embed the player os we can further investigate.

t...

User  
0 rated :

Thank you very much for your time

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