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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 10 (Cambridge)

Cambridge was released on 2008-11-25.

Yum Data

Current release connections

Connections to yum
Week Dates New Unique IPs Total Unique IPs Total compared to Sulphur
Week 1 2008-11-25 -- 2008-12-01 67,421 67,421 73%
Week 2 2008-12-02 -- 2008-12-08 81,674 149,095 97%
Week 3 2008-12-09 -- 2008-12-15 60,759 209,854 97%
Week 4 2008-12-16 -- 2008-12-22 62,527 272,381 93%
Week 5 2008-12-23 -- 2008-12-29 68,375 340,756 97%
Week 6 2008-12-30 -- 2009-01-05 73,585 414,341 97%
Week 7 2009-01-06 -- 2009-01-12 94,166 508,507 103%
Week 8 2009-01-13 -- 2009-01-19 85,557 594,064 106%
Week 9 2009-01-20 -- 2009-01-26 87,678 681,742 107%
Week 10 2009-01-27 -- 2009-02-02 91,014 772,756 110%
Week 11 2009-02-03 -- 2009-02-09 95,238 867,994 113%
Week 12 2009-02-10 -- 2009-02-16 95,967 963,961 115%
Week 13 2009-02-17 -- 2009-02-23 109,800 1,073,761 115%
Week 14 2009-02-24 -- 2009-03-02 85,246 1,159,007
Week 15 2009-03-03 -- 2009-03-09 100,610 1,259,617

Total repository connections

Total connections to repositories (as of 2009-02-23)
Method Fedora 7 Fedora 8 Fedora 9 Fedora 10 Rawhide TOTAL
Mixed 3,561,381 4,636,262 2,430,696 1,259,617 603,364 12,491,320
New 3,582,449 4,717,782 2,587,556 1,259,617 603,364 12,750,768

It's uncertain whether the old method 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.

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 2009-03-03)
Werewolf (F8) Sulphur (F9) Cambridge (F10)
448,769 433,531 198,990

Direct Download

The following table shows the number of direct downloads of Fedora 39 media, as shown in the web proxy logs.

Direct downloads from the web
Week Dates Downloads this week Total downloads
Week 1 2008-11-25 -- 2008-12-01 79,635 79,635
Week 2 2008-12-02 -- 2008-12-08 34,903 114,538
Week 3 2008-12-09 -- 2008-12-15 26,925 141,463
Week 4 2008-12-16 -- 2008-12-22 24,558 166,021
Week 5 2008-12-23 -- 2008-12-29 20,708 186,729
Week 6 2008-12-30 -- 2009-01-05 19,336 206,065
Week 7 2009-01-06 -- 2009-01-12 21,408 227,473
Week 8 2009-01-13 -- 2009-01-19 21,445 248,918
Week 9 2009-01-20 -- 2009-01-26 21,772 270,690
Week 10 2009-01-27 -- 2009-02-02 20,685 291,375
Week 11 2009-02-03 -- 2009-02-09 20,514 311,889
Week 12 2009-02-10 -- 2009-02-16 19,087 330,976
Week 13 2009-02-17 -- 2009-02-23 19,171 350,147
Week 14 2009-02-24 -- 2009-03-02 18,769 368,916
Week 15 2009-03-03 -- 2009-03-09 18,557 387,473

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 (all-time monthly high)
December 2008 1,873,217
January 2009 1,815,135
February 2009 1,697,108

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
June 2008
July 2008
August 2008
September 2008
October 2008


Maps

A variety of maps showing various statistics.

Ambassadors

Information about the [| number of Fedora Ambassadors].

Legacy Statistics

Older releases and years are on the Legacy statistics page.

Commands

Information on how these statistics are gathered is found here.