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["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I'm mystified at the 3k+ downloads per day for 2.5.msi instead of 
> 2.5.1.msi, or the 600 per day of 2.4.2 (!)

I checked some referrers; for the 2.4.2 download, the most recent
Apache log (which rotates daily) gives

http://www.cnd8.com/down.htm?id=5952&no=1&url=http%3A//python%2Eorg/ftp/python/2%2E4%2E2/python-2%2E4%2E2%2Emsi
http://zhidao.baidu.com/question/2944490.html

For 2.5.msi, some referrers are

http://softbank705nk.loudland.net/index.php/%E3%83%86%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E
http://www.cyber-security.org/CW/Forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=32&TopicID=153018&PagePosition=1

So people don't go to python.org to get Python, but they find
the link in some other place on the net.

However, for 2.5, we also have

http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/Download?highlight=%28BeginnersGuide%2F%29

which should be fixed, plus

http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.5/

for which one would have to recursively investigate referrers.

> ia64 version of 2.5.1 has 1054 hits this month, vs 36642 for the x86 
> amd 2410 for the amd64

So of all three, the Itanium binaries see least interest.

Regards,
Martin