Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: I'd explain it by the fact the the first attempt (referring eg. ubuntustudio.org) was denied by our server. Users who actually got a slot at download.linuxaudio.org kept trying (bookmark, reload). not a special header for bookmarks, but yes, the browser sends a "HTTP-referrer" the URL where you come from - similar to cookies. you can disable sending them fi. with the firefox-webdeveloper "Disable referrers" menu-option. awstats (generating our statistics) interprets an empty referrer as bookmarked URL or URL entered by hand.. well, it's not THAT bad. - referrers from search-engines are more interesting, than from end-users. and I'm not gonna comment on: http://stats.linuxaudio.org/awstats.pl?config=www.linuxaudio.org google-crawlers alone have been downloading 8.44 GB from linuxaudio.org via HTTP in the last 10 days!! There are many caveats interpreting HTTP-logs in general and AWstats in particular eg. the hourly log: the downloads are logged when finished (not when started - the average ubuntustudio-iso download takes ~12hours with a 4hour std.deviation - so stats are pretty blurred). partial downloads are counted as "not-viewed-traffic"; while the request that eventually completes the download counts as "viewed-traffic" - this obfuscates the "avg. size" transferred for each file... The squid-cache that we use to generate "total" stats does not log special HTTP-headers like the referring URL. so we don't have a total count here. Anyway, we still reject about 90% of all requests to the ubuntu-iso to keep the remaining services up and running - there are avg. 60 simult. downloads for ISOs sharing a 600kbit/s slot. - PLEASE USE TORRENTS! I was really amazed at the stats! Given that we only have a 10Mbit/s uplink. there's > 92.5% utilization in average! kudos to squid-cache.org robin PS. the new linuxaudio.org servers will feature mrtg - for the book of records: linuxaudio.org survived under a sys-load of 66 for about 40 minutes on May 13 2007.