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Lots of different people.  Millions, in fact -- many millions!  You can see some notable examples [[Overview#Our_Community|on the Overview page]].
Lots of different people.  Millions, in fact -- many millions!  You can see some notable examples [[Overview#Our_Community|on the Overview page]].
== Fedora 13 (Goddard) ==
Goddard took flight on 2010-05-25.


=== Yum Data ===
=== Yum Data ===


==== Current release connections ====
==== Total repository connections ====
{|
{|
!colspan="14" | Total connections to repositories
|-
|-
!colspan="5" | Connections to yum
| Fedora 7 || Fedora 8 || Fedora 9 || Fedora 10 || Fedora 11 || Fedora 12 || Fedora 13 || Fedora 14 || Fedora 15 || Fedora 16 || Fedora 17 || Fedora 18 || Fedora 19 || Fedora 20
|-
| Week || Dates || New Unique IPs || Total Unique IPs || Total compared to [[Legacy_statistics#Fedora_12_.28Constantine.29|Constantine]]
|-
| Week  1    || 2010-05-25 -- 2010-05-31 ||    103,424 ||    103,424 || 113%
|-
| Week  2    || 2010-06-01 -- 2010-06-07 ||    81,524 ||    184,948 || 103%
|-
| Week  3    || 2010-06-08 -- 2010-06-14 ||     84,563 ||    269,511 || 101%
|-
| Week  4    || 2010-06-15 -- 2010-06-21 ||    86,031 ||    355,542 ||  99%
|-
| Week  5    || 2010-06-22 -- 2010-06-28 ||    85,870 ||    441,412 ||  99%
|-
| Week  6    || 2010-06-29 -- 2010-07-05 ||     88,366 ||   529,778 || 99%
|-
|-
| Week  7   || 2010-07-06 -- 2010-07-12 ||     90,261 ||   620,039 || 99%
| 4,603,852 || 7,886,126 || 4,323,223 || 5,041,265 || 5,433,399 || 6,328,796 || 5,421,047 || 7,236,866 || 3,679,668 || 4,386,733 || 5,356,148 || 3,001,321 || 2,403,218 || 2,645,535
|-
|-
| Week  8    || 2010-07-13 -- 2010-07-19 ||    92,228 ||    712,267 ||  98%
| colspan="14" align=center | ''TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 54944818''<br/>This total is not a simple sum of the counts above. It
|-
is a list of unique IP addresses that have connected across all releases.
| Week  9    || 2010-07-20 -- 2010-07-26 ||    94,203 ||    806,470 ||  97%
|-
| Week 10    || 2010-07-27 -- 2010-08-02 ||    94,349 ||    900,819 ||  98%
|-
| Week 11    || 2010-08-03 -- 2010-08-09 ||    100,108 ||  1,000,927 ||  97%
|-
| Week 12    || 2010-08-10 -- 2010-08-16 ||    103,024 ||  1,103,951 ||  96%
|}
|}


==== Total repository connections ====
{|
!colspan="9" | Total connections to repositories
|-
| Method    || Fedora 7  || Fedora 8  || Fedora 9  || Fedora 10 || Fedora 11 || Fedora 12 || Fedora 13
|-
| ''Mixed'' || 4,104,096 || 6,353,757 || 3,569,556 || 4,235,977 || 4,143,207 || 3,643,919 || 1,103,951
|-
| ''New''  || 4,127,832 || 6,441,747 || 3,728,957 || 4,235,977 || 4,143,207 || 3,643,919 || 1,103,951
|-
!colspan="9" | ''TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 23,935,059''
|}


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.
 


{{Anchor|Repository connections caveat}}
{{Anchor|Repository connections caveat}}
{{admon/note|Currently, there is no reliable way to determine the total number of Linux users, or even count the total number of users of any Linux distribution which does not have a mandatory per user registration process.|Anyone who tells you otherwise may be misinformed, dishonest, or trying to sell you something.
{{admon/note|Currently, there is no reliable way to determine the total number of Linux users, or even count the total number of users of any Linux distribution which does not have a mandatory per user registration process.|Anyone who tells you otherwise may be misinformed, dishonest, or trying to sell you something.


The numbers above do not represent a total user count for Fedora.  We are counting IP addresses because that is the only thing we can reliably measure.  ''OEM shipping numbers, application popularity contests, and other "estimates" all have intrinsic error factors as well.''  Without a 1:1 sales figure or registration process, user counting is a difficult problem to solve.  Our [[#Accuracy_of_metrics|accuracy]] section below has a discussion of what's wrong with IP number counts, too.
The numbers above do not represent a total user or usage count or overall download count for Fedora.  Correlation of the numbers between different releases of Fedora is difficult due to the way our infrastructure is set up, and in part because the method we have used count IP connections has changed over time. We are counting IP addresses because they are the only statistic we can reliably measure.  ''Similarly, OEM shipping numbers, application popularity contests, and other "estimates" all have intrinsic error factors.''  Without a 1:1 sales figure or registration process, user counting is a difficult problem to solve.  Our [[#Accuracy_of_metrics|accuracy]] section has more information on this issue.  


When you hear someone estimate a count of users, the right questions to ask are:
When you hear of a user estimate, you should ask the following questions:
; Precisely how did you arrive at this number?
; How did you arrive at this number?
: For Fedora the answers are located at [[Statistics/Commands|this page]].
: For Fedora, the answers are located [[Statistics/Commands|here]].
; Where is the data located, so someone can duplicate the process?
; Where is the data located, to allow process verification?
: Although you do need appropriate access to our logging hosts to gather the data, our [[Infrastructure]] team does welcome people who want to participate in their work.}}
: Accessing Fedora's data requires appropriate access rights to our logging hosts, but as a community project, our [[Infrastructure]] team welcomes new contributors, allowing others to duplicate our analysis. }}


=== Accuracy of metrics ===
=== Accuracy of metrics ===
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# Users who are behind NAT or corporate proxies will not be counted at all.
# 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.
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 [http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/42464.html this blog entry] by [[User:Jspaleta | Jef Spaleta]].
For a more thorough discussion and enlightening information about the measurement of Fedora's userbase, refer to [http://jspaleta.livejournal.com/42464.html this blog entry] by [[User:Jspaleta | Jef Spaleta]]
 
== Smolt Data ==
 
[http://smolt.fedoraproject.org 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. This table shows downloads only through trackers connected to the [http://torrent.fedoraproject.org official torrent server].
 
{|
|-
!colspan="5" | Downloads from bittorrent (as of 2010-07-27)
|-
| Sulphur (F9) || Cambridge (F10) || Leonidas (F11)<ref>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 (F10: 306,696, F11: 169,832).</ref> || Constantine (F12) || Goddard (F13)
|-
| 443,932 || 523,022 || 363,629 || 299,633 || 72,372
|}
 
<references/>
 
== Direct Download ==
 
The following table shows the number of direct downloads of {{FedoraVersion|long}} media '''from unique IP addresses''', as shown in the web proxy logs.  The actual number of raw downloads tends to be much higher.
 
{|
|-
!colspan="5" | Direct downloads from the web
 
(includes a count of DVD, Live, CD disc 1, and netinst ISOs downloaded directly from the web)
|-
! Week !! Dates !! Downloads this week !! Total downloads !! Total compared to [[Legacy_statistics#Fedora_12_.28Constantine.29|Constantine]]
|-
| Week  1  || 2010-05-25 -- 2010-05-31 ||  144,340 ||  144,340 ||  93%
|-
| Week  2  || 2010-06-01 -- 2010-06-07 ||    98,801 ||  243,141 || 102%
|-
| Week  3  || 2010-06-08 -- 2010-06-14 ||    68,760 ||  311,901 || 101%
|-
| Week  4  || 2010-06-15 -- 2010-06-21 ||    70,940 ||  382,841 || 104%
|-
| Week  5  || 2010-06-22 -- 2010-06-28 ||    63,431 ||  446,272 || 105%
|-
| Week  6  || 2010-06-29 -- 2010-07-05 ||    61,774 ||  508,046 || 106%
|-
| Week  7  || 2010-07-06 -- 2010-07-12 ||    61,441 ||  569,487 || 108%
|-
| Week  8  || 2010-07-13 -- 2010-07-19 ||    59,774 ||  629,261 || 108%
|-
| Week  9  || 2010-07-20 -- 2010-07-26 ||    59,857 ||  689,118 || 108%
|-
| Week 10  || 2010-07-27 -- 2010-08-02 ||    58,088 ||  747,206 || 107%
|-
| Week 11  || 2010-08-03 -- 2010-08-09 ||    59,316 ||  806,522 || 107%
|-
| Week 12  || 2010-08-10 -- 2010-08-16 ||    58,627 ||  865,149 || 106%
|}


== fedoraproject.org unique visitors ==
== fedoraproject.org unique visitors ==
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|-
|-
| July 2010      || 1,808,418
| July 2010      || 1,808,418
|-
| August 2010    || 1,589,666
|-
| September 2010 || 1,642,009
|-
| October 2010  || 1,903,774
|-
| November 2010  || 2,086,089
|-
| December 2010  || 1,645,695
|-
| January 2011  || 1,633,474
|-
| February 2011  || 1,493,936
|-
| March 2011    || 1,636,965
|-
| April 2011    || 1,776,393
|-
| May 2011      || 2,251,895
|-
| June 2011      || 2,097,498
|-
| July 2011      || 1,814,156
|-
| August 2011    || 1,841,150
|-
| September 2011 || 1,861,263
|-
| October 2011  || 2,211,634
|-
| November 2011  || 2,399,947
|-
| December 2011  || 2,014,011
|-
| January 2012  || 1,919,572
|-
| February 2012  || 1,961,273
|-
| March 2012    || 2,151,326
|-
| April 2012    || 2,147,165
|-
| May 2012      || 2,343,961
|-
| June 2012      || 2,327,675
|-
| July 2012      || 2,170,612
|-
| August 2012    || 2,000,144
|-
| September 2012 || 2,118,079
|-
| October 2012  || 2,103,740
|-
| November 2012  || 2,017,841
|-
| December 2012  || 1,999,202
|-
| January 2013 || 2,342,127
|-
| February 2013 || 1,930,021
|-
| March 2013 || 1,903,531
|-
| April 2013 || 1,756,858
|-
| May 2013 || 1,885,985
|-
| June 2013 || 1,877,495
|-
| June 2014 || 1,488,759
|}
|}
[[File:Fedoraproject-org-statistics.png]]


== Edits to Fedora wiki ==
== Edits to Fedora wiki ==
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|-
|-
| July 2010      || 14,274 || 793
| July 2010      || 14,274 || 793
|}
|-
 
| August 2010    || 13,657 || 791
== Contributors ==
|-
<!-- This chart is pretty ugly.
| September 2010 || 12,144 || 788
{|
|-
! Month !! CLA
| October 2010  || 12,400 || 888
|-
| November 2010  || 12,447 || 887
|-
| December 2010  ||  7,458 || 627
|-
| January 2011  ||  9,768 || 771
|-
| February 2011  || 11,920 || 950
|-
| March 2011    || 11,909 || 882
|-
| April 2011    || 10,774 || 835
|-
| May 2011      ||  5,628 || 917
|-
| June 2011      ||  6,129 || 767
|-
| July 2011      ||  5,592 || 725
|-
| August 2011    ||  4,463 || 589
|-
| September 2011 ||  4,493 || 781
|-
| October 2011  ||  3,268 || 633
|-
| November 2011  ||  3,353 || 635
|-
| December 2011  ||  2,645 || 584
|-
| January 2012  ||  4,061 || 711
|-
| February 2012  ||  4,250 || 696
|-
| March 2012    ||  7,799 || 1023
|-
| April 2012    ||  4,739 || 748
|-
| May 2012      ||  3,897 || 643
|-
| June 2012      ||  4,048 || 667
|-  
|-  
| 2005-05 || 122
| July 2012      || 2,842 || 511
|-
|-
| 2005-06 || 149
| August 2012    || 2,467 || 524
|-  
|-
| 2005-07 || 174
| September 2012 || 3,886 || 656
|-
|-
| 2005-08 || 206
| October 2012  || 3,922 || 639
|-  
|-
| 2005-09 || 225
| November 2012  || 4,061 || 643
|-
|-
| 2005-10 || 238
| December 2012  || 2,761 || 535
|-  
|-
| 2005-11 || 250
| January 2013  || 5,262 || 771
|-
|-
| 2005-12 || 268
| February 2013  || 2,807 || 544
|-  
|-
| 2006-01 || 289
| March 2013    || 3,489 || 621
|-
|-
| 2006-02 || 319
| April 2013    || 6,416 || 804
|-  
|-
| 2006-03 || 372
| May 2013      || 23,359 || 1,172
|-
| 2006-04 || 433
|-  
| 2006-05 || 486
|-
| 2006-06 || 560
|-  
| 2006-07 || 610
|-
| 2006-08 || 654
|-  
| 2006-09 || 693
|-
| 2006-10 || 739
|-
| 2006-11 || 794
|-
| 2006-12 || 844
|-
| 2007-01 || 890
|-
| 2007-02 || 949
|-
| 2007-03 || 1009
|-
| 2007-04 || 1093
|-
| 2007-05 || 1182
|-
| 2007-06 || 1298
|-
| 2007-07 || 1403
|-
| 2007-08 || 1511
|-
| 2007-09 || 1610
|-
| 2007-10 || 1693
|-
| 2007-11 || 1794
|-
| 2007-12 || 1918
|-
| 2008-01 || 2000
|-
| 2008-02 || 2119
|-
| 2008-03 || 2222
|-
| 2008-04 || 2393
|-
| 2008-05 || 2713
|-
| 2008-06 || 3641
|-
|-
| 2008-07 || 4431
| June 2013      || 6,785  || 993
|-
| 2008-08 || 5173
|-
| 2008-09 || 5869
|-
| 2008-10 || 6724
|-
| 2008-11 || 7345
|-
| 2008-12 || 8127
|-
| 2009-01 || 8839
|-
| 2009-02 || 9565
|-
| 2009-03 || 10229
|-
| 2009-04 || 10957
|-
| 2009-05 || 11558
|-
| 2009-06 || 12323
|-
| 2009-07 || 13254
|-
| 2009-08 || 13924
|-
| 2009-09 || 14604
|-
|-
| 2009-10 || 15241
| June 2014      || 2,036  || 461
|}
|}
-->
[[Image:Accounts_2010-02.jpg]]


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.
=== Translations ===
 
Details about the progress of [[L10N|localization]] can be found on [https://fedora.transifex.com/ Transifex].


=== Ambassadors ===
=== Ambassadors ===
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A variety of [[maps | maps]]  showing various statistics.
A variety of [[maps | maps]]  showing various statistics.
== Bodhi Updates ==
[http://bodhi.fedoraproject.org Bodhi] is the system that is responsible for
publishing package updates to Fedora releases.  It tracks various statistics
and generates graphs under the 'Metrics' section of each release.


== Charts ==
== Charts ==


Some [[Statistics charts | charts]] are available reflecting some of the information shown on this page.
Some [[Statistics charts | charts]] are available reflecting some of the information shown on this page.  Up-to-date charts are available at the [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/#statistics Fedora community portal].


== Legacy Statistics ==
== Legacy Statistics ==

Revision as of 12:30, 20 August 2015

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The methodologies here don't really work after several infrastructure changes over the last couple of years. This pag needs to be revamped significantly to be meaningful. --pfrields (talk) 12:30, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

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.

Yum Data

Total repository connections

Total connections to repositories
Fedora 7 Fedora 8 Fedora 9 Fedora 10 Fedora 11 Fedora 12 Fedora 13 Fedora 14 Fedora 15 Fedora 16 Fedora 17 Fedora 18 Fedora 19 Fedora 20
4,603,852 7,886,126 4,323,223 5,041,265 5,433,399 6,328,796 5,421,047 7,236,866 3,679,668 4,386,733 5,356,148 3,001,321 2,403,218 2,645,535
TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 54944818
This total is not a simple sum of the counts above. It

is a list of unique IP addresses that have connected across all releases.



Note.png
Currently, there is no reliable way to determine the total number of Linux users, or even count the total number of users of any Linux distribution which does not have a mandatory per user registration process.
Anyone who tells you otherwise may be misinformed, dishonest, or trying to sell you something.

The numbers above do not represent a total user or usage count or overall download count for Fedora. Correlation of the numbers between different releases of Fedora is difficult due to the way our infrastructure is set up, and in part because the method we have used count IP connections has changed over time. We are counting IP addresses because they are the only statistic we can reliably measure. Similarly, OEM shipping numbers, application popularity contests, and other "estimates" all have intrinsic error factors. Without a 1:1 sales figure or registration process, user counting is a difficult problem to solve. Our accuracy section has more information on this issue.

When you hear of a user estimate, you should ask the following questions:

How did you arrive at this number?
For Fedora, the answers are located here.
Where is the data located, to allow process verification?
Accessing Fedora's data requires appropriate access rights to our logging hosts, but as a community project, our Infrastructure team welcomes new contributors, allowing others to duplicate our analysis.

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

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)
December 2009 1,969,482
January 2010 1,829,467
February 2010 1,628,215
March 2010 1,728,081
April 2010 1,585,905
May 2010 2,197,213
June 2010 1,853,870
July 2010 1,808,418
August 2010 1,589,666
September 2010 1,642,009
October 2010 1,903,774
November 2010 2,086,089
December 2010 1,645,695
January 2011 1,633,474
February 2011 1,493,936
March 2011 1,636,965
April 2011 1,776,393
May 2011 2,251,895
June 2011 2,097,498
July 2011 1,814,156
August 2011 1,841,150
September 2011 1,861,263
October 2011 2,211,634
November 2011 2,399,947
December 2011 2,014,011
January 2012 1,919,572
February 2012 1,961,273
March 2012 2,151,326
April 2012 2,147,165
May 2012 2,343,961
June 2012 2,327,675
July 2012 2,170,612
August 2012 2,000,144
September 2012 2,118,079
October 2012 2,103,740
November 2012 2,017,841
December 2012 1,999,202
January 2013 2,342,127
February 2013 1,930,021
March 2013 1,903,531
April 2013 1,756,858
May 2013 1,885,985
June 2013 1,877,495
June 2014 1,488,759

Fedoraproject-org-statistics.png

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
December 2009 4,058 653
January 2010 5,319 711
February 2010 12,384 761
March 2010 12,176 834
April 2010 13,874 1,001
May 2010 17,809 871
June 2010 13,879 672
July 2010 14,274 793
August 2010 13,657 791
September 2010 12,144 788
October 2010 12,400 888
November 2010 12,447 887
December 2010 7,458 627
January 2011 9,768 771
February 2011 11,920 950
March 2011 11,909 882
April 2011 10,774 835
May 2011 5,628 917
June 2011 6,129 767
July 2011 5,592 725
August 2011 4,463 589
September 2011 4,493 781
October 2011 3,268 633
November 2011 3,353 635
December 2011 2,645 584
January 2012 4,061 711
February 2012 4,250 696
March 2012 7,799 1023
April 2012 4,739 748
May 2012 3,897 643
June 2012 4,048 667
July 2012 2,842 511
August 2012 2,467 524
September 2012 3,886 656
October 2012 3,922 639
November 2012 4,061 643
December 2012 2,761 535
January 2013 5,262 771
February 2013 2,807 544
March 2013 3,489 621
April 2013 6,416 804
May 2013 23,359 1,172
June 2013 6,785 993
June 2014 2,036 461

Translations

Details about the progress of localization can be found on Transifex.

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.

Bodhi Updates

Bodhi is the system that is responsible for publishing package updates to Fedora releases. It tracks various statistics and generates graphs under the 'Metrics' section of each release.

Charts

Some charts are available reflecting some of the information shown on this page. Up-to-date charts are available at the Fedora community portal.

Legacy Statistics

Older releases and years are on the Legacy statistics page.

Commands

Information on how these statistics are gathered is found here.