Crunching the Numbers on the Enhanced Share Feature

by | Mar 11, 2015 | File Sharing, New Features

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We released our New & Improved Share feature six weeks ago, and here are some interesting statistics:

  • 50% of Shares used the option to generate a link the user sends directly to recipients
  • 50% of Shares used My Docs Online to deliver the link via email
  • 10% of Shares used a “Smart Label” (introduced with the release for the Web Client, but not yet available in the Desktop App)
  • 8% of Shares used the Password option
  • 99% of all Shares included 30 or fewer files
  • 59% of all Shares were for a single file, while about a third were for between 2 and 10 files
  • Among accounts using the Share feature, the top 20% averaged 53 Shares each, while the bottom 20% have done a single Share

There is the expected “long tail” when you look at the number of files in a particular Share, with a few Shares including hundreds of files. (more…)

We’re Now Pre-Zipping Shared Files for Quicker, Easier Delivery

by | Apr 15, 2013 | File Sharing

We’ve improved our zip processing for files you deliver via “Share” using the Desktop App or the web interface (the new web client, not the “classic” version).

Now we start the zip processing for all the files you Share right after you do the Share, and almost always have it ready on the file delivery page by the time the recipient sees it.

There’s a new link right on the page to immediately download all as a zip:

It’s only for Shares of more than one file, and is limited to a total size of all files under 2 GB (over that and the browser will have trouble anyway).

The zip processing for users logged into an actual account remains unchanged, but those users have the option of downloading via the Desktop App.