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We looked into this several years ago and found that most of our users had likely encountered and cached the several most popular versions on CDNs. There was a power law distribution in effect.

In the last five years, the release schedule has slowed, so there was a convergence onto fewer versions in the wild, but at the same time, users were visiting fewer sites that used CDN versions (and fewer sites in general.)



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