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	--
Week 16	2009-03-10 -- 2009-03-16	100,323	1,359,940	--
Week 17	2009-03-17 -- 2009-03-23	100,819	1,460,759	--
Week 18	2009-03-24 -- 2009-03-30	102,843	1,563,602	--
Week 19	2009-03-31 -- 2009-04-06	101,978	1,665,580	136%
Week 20	2009-04-07 -- 2009-04-13	99,586	1,765,166	--
Week 21	2009-04-14 -- 2009-04-20	101,808	1,866,974	--
Week 22	2009-04-21 -- 2009-04-27	100,230	1,967,177	--
Week 23	2009-04-28 -- 2009-05-04	97,584	2,064,761	--
Week 24	2009-05-05 -- 2009-05-11	95,923	2,160,684	137%
Week 25	2009-05-12 -- 2009-05-18	95,632	2,256,316	--
Week 26	2009-05-19 -- 2009-05-25	92,377	2,348,693	--
Week 27	2009-05-26 -- 2009-06-01	91,747	2,440,440	--
Week 28	2009-06-02 -- 2009-06-08	91,513	2,531,953	--

Total repository connections

Total connections to repositories (as of 2009-06-01)
Method	Fedora 7	Fedora 8	Fedora 9	Fedora 10	Rawhide	TOTAL
Mixed	3,695,489	5,096,670	2,795,432	2,531,953	725,230	14,844,744
New	3,716,323	5,177,148	2,951,025	2,531,953	725,230	15,101,679
TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 13,211,846

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.

For a more thorough discussion and enlightening information about the measurement of Fedora's userbase, refer to this blog entry by Jef Spaleta.

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 2009-06-09)
Werewolf (F8)	Sulphur (F9)	Cambridge (F10)	Leonidas (F11)
453,848	440,279	289,195	17,608

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
Week	Dates	Downloads this week	Total downloads
Week 1	2008-11-25 -- 2008-12-01	236,886	236,886
Week 2	2008-12-02 -- 2008-12-08	105,994	342,880
Week 3	2008-12-09 -- 2008-12-15	83,740	426,620
Week 4	2008-12-16 -- 2008-12-22	76,982	503,602
Week 5	2008-12-23 -- 2008-12-29	66,351	569,953
Week 6	2008-12-30 -- 2009-01-05	65,102	635,055
Week 7	2009-01-06 -- 2009-01-12	72,729	707,784
Week 8	2009-01-13 -- 2009-01-19	73,301	781,085
Week 9	2009-01-20 -- 2009-01-26	72,082	853,167
Week 10	2009-01-27 -- 2009-02-02	71,788	924,955
Week 11	2009-02-03 -- 2009-02-09	72,529	997,484
Week 12	2009-02-10 -- 2009-02-16	69,071	1,066,555
Week 13	2009-02-17 -- 2009-02-23	69,216	1,135,771
Week 14	2009-02-24 -- 2009-03-02	67,669	1,203,440
Week 15	2009-03-03 -- 2009-03-09	66,666	1,270,106
Week 16	2009-03-10 -- 2009-03-16	65,524	1,335,630
Week 17	2009-03-17 -- 2009-03-23	63,218	1,398,848
Week 18	2009-03-24 -- 2009-03-30	62,930	1,461,778
Week 19	2009-03-31 -- 2009-04-06	59,813	1,521,591
Week 20	2009-04-07 -- 2009-04-13	57,102	1,578,693
Week 21	2009-04-14 -- 2009-04-20	55,871	1,634,564
Week 22	2009-04-21 -- 2009-04-27	55,117	1,689,681
Week 23	2009-04-28 -- 2009-05-04	50,815	1,740,496
Week 24	2009-05-05 -- 2009-05-11	48,139	1,788,635
Week 25	2009-05-12 -- 2009-05-18	47,813	1,836,448
Week 26	2009-05-19 -- 2009-05-25	46,077	1,882,525
Week 27	2009-05-26 -- 2009-06-01	44,969	1,927,494
Week 28	2009-06-02 -- 2009-06-08	44,835	1,972,329

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 (all-time monthly high)

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

Maps

A variety of maps showing various statistics.

Charts

Some charts are available reflecting some of the information shown on this page.

Contributors

Ambassadors

Information about the number of Fedora Ambassadors.

Translators

Information on the growth and numbers of Fedora Translators.

Legacy Statistics

Older releases and years are on the Legacy statistics page.

Commands

Information on how these statistics are gathered is found here.