Body: <p>I need to figure out if there's a way to track the amount of times an asset was downloaded. I need to display this in the back end on the site. I don't need to display it anywhere but on the back end of an admin user.</p>
  
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2018-08-03T16:19:51.363Z
Comments.Text: I'm not aware of an existing plugin that does this, but you can use this one as a starting point. It tracks the number of times an entry is viewed. https://github.com/putyourlightson/craft-entry-count
Comments.UserDisplayName: Brad Bell
Comments.ContentLicense: CC BY-SA 4.0
Comments.CreationDate: 2018-08-04T01:28:36.647Z
Comments.Text: An option would be to use Instant Analytics to send the analytics data on file downloads to Google Analytics where it can be viewed. https://github.com/nystudio107/craft-instantanalytics#tracking-assetsresources
Comments.UserDisplayName: andrew.welch
Tags: <craft3>
Title: Track downloads on assets
ThreadText: # Track downloads on assets
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-08-03)
  
  I need to figure out if there's a way to track the amount of times an asset was downloaded. I need to display this in the back end on the site. I don't need to display it anywhere but on the back end of an admin user.
  
  **Tags:** craft3
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: I'm not aware of an existing plugin that does this, but you can use this one as a starting point. It tracks the number of times an entry is viewed. https://github.com/putyourlightson/craft-entry-count  
  > **username_2**: An option would be to use Instant Analytics to send the analytics data on file downloads to Google Analytics where it can be viewed. https://github.com/nystudio107/craft-instantanalytics#tracking-assetsresources  
  
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