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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ versions](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/filelock.svg)](https://pypi.org
 status](https://readthedocs.org/projects/py-filelock/badge/?version=latest)](https://py-filelock.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest)
 [![Code style:
 black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
-[![Downloads](https://pepy.tech/badge/filelock/month)](https://pepy.tech/project/filelock)
+[![Downloads](https://static.pepy.tech/badge/filelock/month)](https://pepy.tech/project/filelock)
 [![check](https://github.com/tox-dev/py-filelock/actions/workflows/check.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/tox-dev/py-filelock/actions/workflows/check.yml)
 
 For more information checkout the [official documentation](https://py-filelock.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html).