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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 14-19 2008-08-11 -- 2008-09-22 291,956 1,224,371 99% [1]

^1  Totals will be off by approximately 3 weeks due to the August 2008 intrusion event and associated statistics lag. Since statistical counting was impossible for roughly three weeks, percentage comparisons are with the third preceding week's statistics in the previous release. In other words, this chart resumes by comparing Week 19 of F9 release and Week 16 of F8 release, and so on.

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)
238,320 308,956 273,337 410,516 282,958 (as of 2008-08-25)

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
August 2008 773,209

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.