28 Feb
2009
28 Feb
'09
8:02 p.m.
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