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Curl website traffic Feb 2025
Data without logs sure leaves us open for speculations. I took a quick look at what the curl.se website traffic situation looks like right now. Just as a curiosity. Disclaimer: we don't log website visitors at all, we don't run any web analytics on the site so we basically don't know a lot of who … Continue reading curl website traffic Feb 2025 →
What do we have, is a website that is hosted (fronted) by Fastly on their CDN network, and as part of that setup we have an admin interface that offers accumulated traffic data. Even if we count the average size of only the zip archives from recent releases, 6,603,978 bytes, it only makes 6,888 gigabytes in total. The TLS + HTTP data imply a huge amount of bot traffic, but modern curl versions would at least select HTTP/2 unless the users guiding it specifically opted not to.
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