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This page contains a variety of statistics about Fedora's usage.  The Fedora Project believes that [[Infrastructure/Metrics| metrics are an important tool]] .
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This page contains a variety of statistics about Fedora's usage.  The Fedora Project believes that [[Infrastructure/Metrics| metrics are an important tool]].


== Who uses Fedora? ==
== Who uses Fedora? ==


* https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#Who_uses_Fedora.3F
Lots of different people. Millions, in fact -- many millions!  You can see some notable examples [[Overview#Our_Community|on the Overview page]].


== Fedora 10 (Cambridge) ==
=== Update Server Data ===


Cambridge was released on 2008-11-25.
==== Total repository connections ====


=== Yum Data ===


==== Current release connections ====
{|
|-
!colspan="5" | 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%
|}


==== Total repository connections ====
{{Anchor|Repository connections caveat}}
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{{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.
{|
 
!colspan="7" | Total connections to repositories (as of 2008-12-22)
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.
|-
|              || Fedora 7 || Fedora 8  || Fedora 9 || Fedora 10 || Rawhide || ''TOTAL''
|-
| Mixed method || 3,434,133 || 4,150,288 || 2,019,405 ||  272,381 || 525,866 || 10,402,073
|-
| New method  ||          || 4,244,451 || 2,189,238 ||  272,381 || 525,866 ||
|}


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.
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 [[Statistics/Commands|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 ===
=== 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:
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:


# Users who have dynamic IP addresses will likely be counted multiple times, which inflates the number by some amount.
# Users who have dynamic IP addresses will likely be counted multiple times, which inflates the number by some amount.
# 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.   
 
== 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.
 
{|
|-
!colspan="3" | Downloads from bittorrent
|-
| Werewolf (F8) || Sulphur (F9) || Cambridge (F10)
|-
| 444,597      || 426,417      || 104,096 (as of 2008-12-23)
|}
 
== Direct Download ==
 
The following table shows the number of direct downloads of {{FedoraVersion|long}} media, as shown in the web proxy logs.
 
{|
|-
!colspan="4" | 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
|}
 
== fedoraproject.org unique visitors ==
 
{|
|-
!colspan="2" | 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)
|}
 
== Edits to Fedora wiki ==
 
{|
|-
!colspan="3" | 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  ||      ||
|}
 
<!-- A [http://fedoraproject.org/maps/wiki-edits/ map]  of wiki edits worldwide. -->
<!-- Maps not working again yet.  Huzaifa is working on this. -->
 
== Maps ==


A variety of [[maps | maps]] showing various statistics.
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]]


== Ambassadors ==
== Charts ==


Information about the [[Ambassadors/Statistics| number of Fedora Ambassadors]] .
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 ==

Latest revision as of 07:12, 11 March 2020

See usage statistical report on this page.
This page needs some love
This page should be revised or reconstructed to be more helpful. Problems may include being out of step with current team or project status or process.
This page is no longer being updated.
The methodologies here don't really work after several infrastructure changes over the last couple of years. This page 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.

Update Server Data

Total repository connections

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

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.

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