[Python-Dev] Download Counts (was: Language Summit notes)

[Brian Curtin]

On May 28, 2014 12:49 PM, "Brian Curtin" <brian at python.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net>
wrote:
> > I don't think we have recent download numbers since the Website
> > overhaul (do we?), but Python 3 isn't an "experimental concept
> > language" anymore (it hasn't been since 3.3 or 3.2, I'd say).
>
> Using the old logs, which are still good through 2013, I've found the
following:
>
> The first year of a release series (month of final release month + 12mos):
> 2.6.x - 10.3 Million
> 2.7.x - 10.26M
> 3.2.x - 5.84M
> 3.3.x - 13.1M
>
> 2013 downloads (out of 34.79M across all possible versions):
> 2.6.x - 1.9M
> 2.7.x - 14.3M
> 3.2.x - 1.03M
> 3.3.x - 13.85M
>
> 3.3 had a big first year of availability (Oct '12-'13), and throughout
> 2013 it represented 48% of those versions listed above.

Sorry for not being explicit: these are download counts for Windows
installers.
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