As a little spare-time project, I developed an IDEA Plugin Statistics servlet. This servlet will give you a graph showing the total number of downloads of one or more plugins over time. For example,
...you might wonder how actively one of your plugins is downloaded and whether it was worth all the effort:
SimpleIntentions
...you might want to compare how often two similar plugins are downloaded before you decide which one to use yourself:
Retrotranslator Integration vs. Retroweaver Integration
...you might be curious how much of an interest there is in some of the commercial plugins:
Code Dependency & Refactor-J
...you might be interested how IntelliJ IDEA is actually used beyond Java:
Ruby vs. Groovy
Of course, the interpretation of the results has to be taken with a grain of salt, but the data is definitely real and updated daily.
The IDEA Plugin Statistics servlet has been developed with IntelliJ IDEA and integrates various open-source Java tools. I will write a little experience report shortly.
