A method for maintaining statistics on a remote server. The method includes receiving statistics from client devices that are coupled to the remote server. The statistics are associated with data on the remote server. The remote server receives statistics either when a user accesses the data on the remote server or when collected statistics associated with the data previously downloaded into a cache on each client device is uploaded to the remote server from each client device. The method also includes updating the statistics on the remote server in response to either a user access of the data on the remote server or a receipt of the collected statistics from each client device; and downloading the updated statistics to each client device.