Statistics

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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 16 (Verne)

Verne first ventured into the great unknown on 2011-11-08.

Yum Data

Current release connections

Connections to yum
Week	Dates	New Unique IPs	Total Unique IPs	Total compared to Lovelock
Week 1	2011-11-08 -- 2011-11-14	126,500	126,500	111%
Week 2	2011-11-15 -- 2011-11-21	86,957	213,457	94%
Week 3	2011-11-22 -- 2011-11-28	82,677	296,134
Week 4	2011-11-29 -- 2011-12-05	81,979	378,113

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
4,374,422	7,202,527	4,075,783	4,733,581	4,938,359	5,394,074	4,401,300	4,731,278	2,378,740	378,113
TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 35,653,782 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.

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 section below has a discussion of what's wrong with IP number counts, too.

When you hear someone estimate a count of users, the right questions to ask are:

Precisely how did you arrive at this number?

For Fedora the answers are located at this page.

Where is the data located, so someone can duplicate the process?

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.

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.

Why is the Fedora 8 count so high?

We believe this is due to the high concentration of Fedora 8 images on Amazon EC2. We may see additional changes with Fedora 14 and later as that release is expected to be available on EC2 on release day.

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. This table shows downloads only through trackers connected to the official torrent server.

Downloads from bittorrent (as of 2011-04-12)
Sulphur (F9)	Cambridge (F10)	Leonidas (F11)	Constantine (F12)	Goddard (F13)	Laughlin (F14)
443,932	523,776	364,808	315,349	158,570	157,251
NOTE: these numbers seem incomplete and need to be checked against torrent records. --pfrields 11:35, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

Direct Download

The following table shows the number of direct downloads of Fedora 41 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 (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 Lovelock
Week 1	2011-11-08 -- 2011-11-14	179,301	179,301	80%
Week 2	2011-11-15 -- 2011-11-21	109,034	288,335	87%

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

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

Contributors

In April 2008, the FAS (Fedora Account System) 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 the localisation can be found in our transifex instance.

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. 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.