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 14 (Laughlin)
Laughlin emerged on 2011-11-02.
Yum Data
Current release connections
| Connections to yum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week | Dates | New Unique IPs | Total Unique IPs | Total compared to Goddard |
| Week 1 | 2010-11-02 -- 2010-11-08 | 90,118 | 90,118 | 87% |
| Week 2 | 2010-11-09 -- 2010-11-15 | 90,809 | 180,927 | 98% |
| Week 3 | 2010-11-16 -- 2010-11-22 | 90,211 | 271,138 | 101% |
| Week 4 | 2010-11-23 -- 2010-11-29 | 91,001 | 362,139 | 102% |
| Week 5 | 2010-11-30 -- 2010-12-06 | 85,821 | 447,960 | 101% |
| Week 6 | 2010-12-07 -- 2010-12-13 | 91,816 | 539,776 | 102% |
Total repository connections
| Total connections to repositories | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method | Fedora 7 | Fedora 8 | Fedora 9 | Fedora 10 | Fedora 11 | Fedora 12 | Fedora 13 | Fedora 14 |
| Mixed | 4,179,623 | 6,595,190 | 3,685,140 | 4,414,894 | 4,452,142 | 4,374,600 | 2,844,864 | 539,776 |
| New | 4,203,253 | 6,682,803 | 3,844,365 | 4,414,894 | 4,452,142 | 4,374,600 | 2,844,864 | 539,776 |
| TOTAL UNIQUE IPs: 27,054,691 | ||||||||
It's uncertain whether the old method used for Fedora 9 and previous releases was properly counting all unique IPs. The new method works incrementally, and thus takes longer, but should be slightly more accurate.
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 2010-11-28) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sulphur (F9) | Cambridge (F10) | Leonidas (F11)[1] | Constantine (F12) | Goddard (F13) | Laughlin (F14) |
| 443,932 | 523,776 | 364,808 | 312,001 | 143,863 | 49,057 |
- ↑ The statistics for BitTorrent were interrupted on or about 2009-09-04 Fedora 11 because of a torrent server reset. Totals at that time are added to the current totals (F10: 306,696, F11: 169,832).
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 Goddard |
| Week 1 | 2010-11-02 -- 2010-11-08 | 151,772 | 151,772 | 105% |
| Week 2 | 2010-11-09 -- 2010-11-15 | 96,641 | 248,413 | 102% |
| Week 3 | 2010-11-16 -- 2010-11-22 | 78,396 | 326,809 | 105% |
| Week 4 | 2010-11-23 -- 2010-11-29 | 69,333 | 396,142 | 103% |
| Week 5 | 2010-11-30 -- 2010-12-06 | 58,838 | 454,980 | 102% |
| Week 6 | 2010-12-07 -- 2010-12-13 | 58,261 | 513,241 | 101% |
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 |
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 |
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.