[pydotorg-www] Quick webstats question

[Noah Kantrowitz]

On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Brian Curtin wrote:

> This seems self explanatory, but I just wanted a quick sanity check
> before I use these numbers in a report...
> 
> 1. Open http://www.python.org/webstats/url_201110.html
> 2. Do a CTRL-F for "/ftp/python/2.7.2/python-2.7.2.msi". The hit count
> is "163124"
> 3. Does this mean 163,124 people downloaded that 2.7.2 Windows
> installer so far this month?
> 
> The reason I ask is because it would mean we average around 1.5M
> Windows installers downloaded per month for the last year, unless of
> course I am misunderstanding what that page means.

That number will also include web crawlers I think, not sure how carefully those are filtered from the logs.

--Noah
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