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Revision as of 13:01, 4 December 2009

This page contains a variety of statistics about Fedora's usage. The Fedora Project believes that metrics are an important tool.

Who uses Fedora?

Lots of different people. Millions, in fact -- many millions! You can see some notable examples on the Overview page.

Fedora 12 (Constantine)

Constantine unified starting on 2009-11-17.

Yum Data

Current release connections

Connections to yum
Week Dates New Unique IPs Total Unique IPs Total compared to Leonidas
Week 1 2009-11-17 -- 2009-11-23 91,620 91,620 87%
Week 2 2009-11-24 -- 2009-11-30 88,238 179,858 92%

Total repository connections

Total connections to repositories (as of 2009-11-23)
Method Fedora 7 Fedora 8 Fedora 9 Fedora 10 Fedora 11 Fedora 12 Rawhide TOTAL
Mixed 3,896,310 5,724,145 3,214,869 3,579,915 2,671,761 179,858 900,382 20,167,240
New 3,916,888 5,803,580 3,369,396 3,550,452 2,589,383 91,620 890,163 20,421,780
TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 17,506,351

It's uncertain whether the old method used for Fedora 9 and previous releases was properly counting all unique IPs. The new method works incrementally, and thus takes longer, but should be slightly more accurate.

Accuracy of metrics

The numbers above for yum represent unique IP addresses that reach our update server, not simply downloads. We believe it is reasonable to equate a "new IP address checking in" with "a new installation of Fedora", with the following caveats:

  1. Users who have dynamic IP addresses will likely be counted multiple times, which inflates the number by some amount.
  2. Users who are behind NAT or corporate proxies will not be counted at all.

The anecdotal evidence that we receive from different groups, companies, and organizations suggests that group (2) is significantly larger than group (1). As such, we believe that the true numbers in the field are higher than the numbers on this page.

For a more thorough discussion and enlightening information about the measurement of Fedora's userbase, refer to this blog entry by Jef Spaleta.

Smolt Data

Smolt is Fedora's hardware profiling project. It is an opt-in database that tracks unique installations of Fedora, and various details about that install. People who install to runlevel 5 will be able to opt-in during firstboot, but people who install to runlevel 3 will have to install the smolt client via yum and manually register.

BitTorrent

The following table shows the number of downloads that have been made over BitTorrent.

Downloads from bittorrent (as of 2009-11-24)
Sulphur (F9) Cambridge (F10) Leonidas (F11)[1] Constantine (F12)
443,932 512,007 343,474 48,200
  1. The statistics for BitTorrent were interrupted on or about 2009-09-04 Fedora 11 because of a torrent server reset. Totals at that time are added to the current totals.

Direct Download

The following table shows the number of direct downloads of Fedora 39 media from unique IP addresses, as shown in the web proxy logs. The actual number of raw downloads tends to be much higher.

Direct downloads from the web
Week Dates Downloads this week Total downloads
Week 1 2009-11-17 -- 2009-11-23 154,804 154,804
Week 2 2009-11-24 -- 2009-11-30 84,372 239,176

fedoraproject.org unique visitors

fedoraproject.org visitors
Period Unique IPs
January 2008 785,583
February 2008 782,043
March 2008 830,078
April 2008 723,776
May 2008 1,128,115
June 2008 825,912
July 2008 751,521
August 2008 773,209
September 2008 1,461,490
October 2008 1,351,477
November 2008 1,993,547
December 2008 1,873,217
January 2009 1,815,135
February 2009 1,697,108
March 2009 1,816,077
April 2009 1,749,571
May 2009 1,996,040
June 2009 2,305,280
July 2009 1,929,651
August 2009 1,964,544
September 2009 1,859,708
October 2009 1,996,649
November 2009 2,423,626 (all-time monthly high)

Edits to Fedora wiki

Fedora wiki edits
Period Total edits Edits from unique IPs
October 2007 921 426
November 2007 1,090 472
December 2007 807 378
January 2008 1,170 580
February 2008 1,244 645
March 2008 1,280 705
April 2008 1,283 755
May 2008 6,043 766
June 2008 6,561 731
July 2008 4,112 528
August 2008 2,226 423
September 2008 4,738 791
October 2008 3,848 617
November 2008 4,619 715
December 2008 4,627 751
January 2009 6,327 739
February 2009 7,444 764
March 2009 8,650 973
April 2009 5,294 844
May 2009 5,191 928
June 2009 5,337 858
July 2009 5,373 807
August 2009 4,864 702
September 2009 5,796 868
October 2009 5,407 782
November 2009 5,665 957

Contributors

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In April 2008, the Fedora Account System CLA process was converted to a click-through process instead of a manual process of GPG signing and fax/email.

Ambassadors

Information about the number of Fedora Ambassadors.

Translators

Information on the growth and numbers of Fedora Translators.

Maps

A variety of maps showing various statistics.

Charts

Some charts are available reflecting some of the information shown on this page.

Legacy Statistics

Older releases and years are on the Legacy statistics page.

Commands

Information on how these statistics are gathered is found here.