Statistics

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 41 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.