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 18 (Spherical Cow)

Spherical Cow became udderly functional on 2013-01-15.

Yum Data

Current release connections

Connections to yum
Week	Dates	New Unique IPs	Total Unique IPs	Total compared to Beefy Miracle
Week 1	2013-01-15 -- 2013-01-21	81,393	81,393	48%
Week 2	2013-01-22 -- 2013-01-28	71,740	153,133	61%
Week 3	2013-01-29 -- 2013-02-04	68.007	221,140	67%
Week 4	2013-02-05 -- 2013-02-11	68,061	289,201	70%
Week 5	2013-02-12 -- 2013-02-18	68,253	358,454	73%
Week 6	2013-02-19 -- 2013-02-25	73,447	431,931	75%
Week 7	2013-02-26 -- 2013-03-04	73,663	505,594	76%
Week 8	2013-03-05 -- 2013-03-11	71,559	577,153	77%
Week 9	2013-03-12 -- 2013-03-18	77,135	654,288	79%
Week 10	2013-03-19 -- 2013-03-25	77,632	731,920	80%
Week 11	2013-03-26 -- 2013-04-01	66,407	798,327	80%
Week 12	2013-04-02 -- 2013-04-08	77,346	875,673	81%

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	Fedora 17	Fedora 18
4,520,340	7,633,616	4,241,801	4,943,916	5,281,881	5,986,187	5,098,334	6,466,557	3,412,814	3,869,360	3,870,027	875,673
TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 46281784 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: 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. 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, and netinst ISOs downloaded directly from the web) Week Dates Downloads this week Total downloads Total compared to Beefy Miracle Week 1 2013-01-15 -- 2013-01-21 141,175 141,175 93% Week 2 2013-01-22 -- 2013-01-28 84,321 225,406 93% Week 3 2013-02-29 -- 2013-02-04 72,156 297,562 94% Week 4 2013-02-05 -- 2013-02-11 68,637 366,199 94% Week 5 2013-02-12 -- 2013-02-18 63,785 429,984 95% Week 6 2013-02-19 -- 2013-02-25 65,421 495,225 96% Week 7 2013-02-26 -- 2013-03-04 62,199 557,224 96% Week 8 2013-03-05 -- 2013-03-11 60,253 617,477 95% Week 9 2013-03-12 -- 2013-03-18 64,203 681,680 97% Week 10 2013-03-19 -- 2013-03-25 61,633 743,313 98% Week 11 2013-03-26 -- 2013-04-01 57,202 800,515 98% Week 12 2013-04-02 -- 2013-04-08 55,317 855,832 99% 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 November 2011 2,399,947 December 2011 2,014,011 January 2012 1,919,572 February 2012 1,961,273 March 2012 2,151,326 April 2012 2,147,165 May 2012 2,343,961 June 2012 2,327,675 July 2012 2,170,612 August 2012 2,000,144 September 2012 2,118,079 October 2012 2,103,740 November 2012 2,017,841 December 2012 1,999,202 January 2013 2,342,127 February 2013 1,930,021 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 November 2011 3,353 635 December 2011 2,645 584 January 2012 4,061 711 February 2012 4,250 696 March 2012 7,799 1023 April 2012 4,739 748 May 2012 3,897 643 June 2012 4,048 667 July 2012 2,842 511 August 2012 2,467 524 September 2012 3,886 656 October 2012 3,922 639 November 2012 4,061 643 December 2012 2,761 535 January 2013 5,262 771 February 2013 2,807 544 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 localization can be found on Transifex. 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. Bodhi Updates Bodhi is the system that is responsible for publishing package updates to Fedora releases. It tracks various statistics and generates graphs under the 'Metrics' section of each release. 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.