Talk:Statistics

I may not have understood the yum method correctly, but as far as I can tell, the IPs are only unique per release version. I.e. if I install F12 on a system with a static IP, do updates, then wipe it and install F13 instead and do updates to that, my IP gets counted as unique in both the F12 and the F13 number. Thus the total across releases is not really the number of unique IPs.

Jef Spaleta estimated the total number of Fedora clients to be 16 million in May 2009. If the non-smolt-corrected number is now 22 million, Fedora has had a nearly 40 % increase in installed base over the past year. That doesn't seem quite realistic. --mhuhtala 2010-06-08

The sum of IP addresses at the right of that chart could be misleading, and I've been considering dropping it. However, the total IP address count is unique across all releases. So the case you mention above would not be counted twice in that number. --pfrields 14:52, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Then it seems that the Statistics/Commands page doesn't quite describe the whole method. It clearly counts unique IPs per release, and the total (22 million) number is exactly the sum of the per-release numbers. If the total sum is unique IPs only, are the addresses that downloaded F12 excluded from F13, and so on? If not, how can you just add the numbers together without taking overlap into account? --mhuhtala Jun 9 12:35:18 UTC 2010