PyPi Download Counts and Warehouse Migration?

[tlee0818]

I did a download count analysis on PyPi's projects, and found something interesting.

https://imgur.com/a/ZUWf28B

There is a significant jump in the number of downloads of PyPi projects from July 2018 to August 2018.

I saw that that's around the time when PyPI migrated to a new backend, Warehouse, in late April 2018. Might this affect the number of download counts? If so, how?

If anyone has any answers, that would be great. Thanks!

[snippsat]

There is a significant jump in the number of downloads of PyPi projects from July 2018 to August 2018.

I saw that that's around the time when PyPI migrated to a new backend

You can try to ask at warehouse.
Can't see why this is relevant now,i know that that made a new JSON Api to shift out old XMLRPC API,
that may have been around that time and could maybe have some some affect on stats back then.