Contador PHP is a simple and efective way of getting a instant report of number of downloads per month, source pages with more clicks, and details such as: IP, day, time. At diference of other counters you get instant feed back to adjust your campain. To integrate it, first create a new database, update the configuration file and organize files for download in the same folder(recomended) , create a link of this tipe: www.site.com/download.php?file=software1.zip&refe=front You can integrate cookies instead of the variable refe in the url.