This document aims to describe statistics available about Apache releases.
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Not directly. Files are downloaded from the mirrors. Apache does not require mirrors to collect statistics about downloads.
Counting the hits on the download script should give a reasonable estimate. Various similar statistics are collected by Vadim Gritsenko.