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[python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Feb 28 21:02:37 CET 2009 
> What on earth happened between May and June 2008? The number of
> "visits" went down dramatically (at least 3x), and stayed at that
> level ever since.

As we don't have the log files anymore, it's hard to tell. My guess
is that it is some automated procedure that completed or got turned
off. For example, on PyPI, a single system was producing 25% of the hits
for some time, trying to keep PyPI mirrored (and the operator didn't
even know it was running).

For svn.python.org, here are some guesses:

- webalizer only counts accesses to PageType URLs as potential
  visits (and as a new visit only if there was no access within 30min
  from that IP). In our configuration, htm*, cgi, and py are PageType
  URLs. So regular svn accesses don't trigger a visit.
- in March 2008, there were 6810 accesses to /webstats/usage_200705.html
  (for whatever reason, from whatever hosts)

So the number of visits is probably irrelevant for that site.

Regards,
Martin
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