Statistics

Statistics & Metrics

This page contains a variety of statistics about Fedora's usage. The Fedora Project believes that metrics are an important tool .

Fedora 9 (Sulphur)

Sulphur was released on 2008-05-13.

Yum Data

Connections to yum
Week	Dates	New Unique IPs	Total Unique IPs	Total compared to Werewolf
Week 1	2008-05-13 -- 2008-05-19	91,847	91,847	114%
Week 2	2008-05-20 -- 2008-05-26	61,415	153,262	103%
Week 3	2008-05-27 -- 2008-06-02	63,928	217,190	99%
Week 4-5	2008-06-03 -- 2008-06-16	132,565	349,755	97%
Week 6-7	2008-06-17 -- 2008-06-30	142,260	492,015	96%
Week 8	2008-07-01 -- 2008-07-07	67,569	559,584	95%
Week 9	2008-07-08 -- 2008-07-14	78,916	638,500	98%
Week 10	2008-07-15 -- 2008-07-21	62,814	701,314	98%
Week 11	2008-07-22 -- 2008-07-28	67,603	768,917	97%
Week 12	2008-07-29 -- 2008-08-04	71,643	840,560	99%
Week 13	2008-08-05 -- 2008-08-11	91,855	932,415	99%
Week 14	2008-08-12 -- 2008-08-18			(1,032,802)
Week 15	2008-08-19 -- 2008-08-25			(1,133,884)
Week 16	2008-08-26 -- 2008-09-01			(1,231,365)

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
Bordeaux (FC5)	Zod (FC6)	Moonshine (F7)	Werewolf (F8)	Sulphur (F9)
238,320	308,956	273,337	401,229	254,067 (as of 2008-08-10)

Direct Download

The following table shows the number of direct downloads of Fedora 9 media, as shown in the web proxy logs.

Direct downloads from the web
Week	Dates	Downloads this week	Total downloads
Week 1	2008-05-13 - 2008-05-19	163,108	163,108
Week 2	2008-05-20 - 2008-05-26	72,483	235,591
Week 3	2008-05-27 - 2008-06-02	59,714	295,305
Week 4	2008-06-03 - 2008-06-09	52,594	347,899
Week 5	2008-06-10 - 2008-06-16	48,018	395,917
Week 6	2008-06-17 - 2008-06-23	48,893	444,810
Week 7	2008-06-24 - 2008-06-30	45,956	490,766
Week 8	2008-07-01 - 2008-07-07	44,849	535,615
Week 9	2008-07-08 - 2008-07-14	44,156	579,771
Week 10	2008-07-15 - 2008-07-21	39,902	619,673
Week 11	2008-07-22 - 2008-07-28	42,672	662,345
Week 12	2008-07-29 - 2008-08-04	42,948	705,293
Week 13	2008-08-05 - 2008-08-11	41,201	746,494

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 (all time monthly high)
June 2008	825,912
July 2008	751,521

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

A map of wiki edits worldwide.

Maps

A variety of maps showing various statistics.

Ambassadors

Information about the number of Fedora Ambassadors .

Legacy Statistics

Older releases and years are here .

Commands

Information on how these statistics are gathered is found here.