Statistics

From openSUSE

This page contains a variety of statistics about openSUSE's usage. They are generated entirely from the apache logs of download.opensuse.org; you can find user contributed data at smolts.org

In the following tables, a + marks a week not yet complete.

Unique IPs visiting updates (cumulative)
Week 10.3 11.0 11.1 11.2
#1 113670 167237 136240 149984
#2 259972 312827 262843 186312+
#3 428682 465301 400162
#4 611688 628856 543512
#5 799733 802305 692402
#6 998891 972604 850565
#7 1196574 1156128 1024709
#8 1393351 1342101 1186045
#9 1591866 1532268 1371166
#10 1788680 1727868 1537795
#11 1987155 1922777 1728945
#12 2180198 2123327 1830126
#13 2380991 2329758 2021393
#14 2589752 2534078 2209670
#15 2782866 2735664 2396602
#16 2997749 2944925 2573036
#17 3211966 3127592 2745616
#18 3430503 3335739 2926398
#19 3645795 3549456 3105173
#20 3854952 3760188 3283455
#21 4069367 3971762 3458011
#22 4286164 4181908 3632372
#23 4496705 4391810 3800252
#24 4693902 4596616 3966528
#25 4887807 4795952 4141979
#26 5083138 4991951 4310679
#27 5288696 5150866 4477714
#28 5493598 5287470 4641871
#29 5695002 5426263 4804762
#30 5888752 5556605 4966554
#31 6075358 5681280 5128570
#32 6253667 5801084 5287318
#33 6441292 5915415 5444710
#34 6624249 6011218 5603883
#35 6802184 6116461 5760387
#36 6976767 6205440 5921854
#37 7151897 6303620 6085475
#38 7300959 6352253 6226210
#39 7432086 6444600 6274658
#40 7554374 6534225 6441716
#41 7667390 6621827 6584275
#42 7771772 6702475 6775753
#43 7867916 6779651 6918364
#44 7962081 6860592 7087823
#45 8052608 6939178 7233123
#46 8140776 7014481 7402755
#47 8227784 7088657 7565724
#48 8312514 7160499 7703046
#49 8396414 7230172 7738217+
#50 8480710 7297162
#51 8562035 7365976
#52 8640855 7431885

The above table is comparable to how fedora counts its yum data. To see how a product is used towards the end of the life cycle, the per week snapshots are interesting too.

Unique IPs visiting updates (per week)
Week 10.3 11.0 11.1 11.2
#1 113670 167237 136240 149984
#2 166076 173480 146516 55289+
#3 195590 186162 163789
#4 215743 201590 175397
#5 225951 214989 185330
#6 242426 214845 199226
#7 244931 231410 219642
#8 247665 236549 209136
#9 253103 243833 238023
#10 254614 253209 216766
#11 258273 255937 250497
#12 250181 265285 143952
#13 262339 274904 250441
#14 278562 275131 253730
#15 264007 274382 254115
#16 291841 285596 243951
#17 294532 255302 240286
#18 302624 288875 252561
#19 302528 297942 251786
#20 295485 295793 250469
#21 306746 299689 248454
#22 313146 299600 248826
#23 307771 301758 242838
#24 294912 297005 241562
#25 289633 291609 253590
#26 296429 288919 247351
#27 312168 239653 245994
#28 313437 201720 241867
#29 311464 209988 240042
#30 303268 201270 240120
#31 295890 193273 240420
#32 286939 186257 237346
#33 299397 178406 236673
#34 294985 154249 239819
#35 289178 166038 238007
#36 285002 142306 246202
#37 286802 156256 251294
#38 252385 87385 223112
#39 222618 146829 92324
#40 209168 143801 255655
#41 195370 140942 228271
#42 181520 131862 261173
#43 169190 126045 230751
#44 165860 132086 263405
#45 160411 128656 236333
#46 156882 124258 265330
#47 155826 122792 261242
#48 153467 119242 228591
#49 151809 116182 79206+
#50 152148 112028
#51 147705 114351
#52 143908 110460

The tables so far are purely based on IPs visiting the download server. As many users use DSL connections with changing IPs, guessing the number of users from the numbers of IPs is basically impossible. So our updaters starting with 11.1 send a random cookie to the server, so the server does not count changing IPs. Based on this data we get more qualified statistics and shoot in direction of number of installations out there.

Number of cookies seen
Week 11.1 11.2
#1 71069 76255
#2 112825 89735+
#3 151330
#4 188813
#5 225449
#6 262270
#7 304535
#8 344076
#9 384258
#10 420142
#11 458051
#12 480376
#13 519150
#14 553734
#15 586967
#16 617653
#17 646762
#18 675910
#19 703104
#20 729980
#21 755993
#22 782807
#23 807455
#24 831746
#25 857161
#26 881257
#27 904472
#28 926392
#29 948491
#30 971386
#31 993913
#32 1015749
#33 1037491
#34 1059549
#35 1080154
#36 1102648
#37 1125718
#38 1145504
#39 1156714
#40 1181457
#41 1200908
#42 1226862
#43 1246192
#44 1270464
#45 1289693
#46 1312546
#47 1333477
#48 1346058
#49 1348868+

When downloading patches, the updater will also submit the installation method. This is very important for the openSUSE project to know as to know what installation method needs how much prerelease testing:

Distribution of installation method (Cookies seen)
Flavor 11.1 11.2
dvd 1007141 (88,5%) 80455 (73,6%)
ftp 87630 (7,7%) 9429 (8,6%)
dvd-biarch 38693 (3,4%) 2266 (2,1%)
promodvd 3634 (0,3%) 25 (0,0%)
livecd-kde 637 (0,1%) 12058 (11,0%)
livecd-gnome 166 (0,0%) 5063 (4,6%)
livecd-kde3 11 (0,0%) 0 (0,0%)
=1137912 =109296

The gap to the total number of cookies is due to people not downloading patches. Similiarly the usage of the architectures is important for us:

Distribution of architecture
Architecture (11.1) Cookies seen Percentage
i586 950281 70,4%
x86_64 395038 29,3%
ppc 3920 0,3%
=1349239

Other interesting statistics are the places where openSUSE is used most. Based on the cookies and the IP first seen for this cookie and using maxmind's GeoIPCity edition:

Top 10 Countries
Germany 536604 29,3%
United States 255276 13,9%
Russian Federation 78163 4,3%
United Kingdom 66701 3,6%
Italy 56753 3,1%
Spain 54657 3,0%
Poland 54629 3,0%
Brazil 51842 2,8%
France 46684 2,5%
Netherlands 43654 2,4%
Top 10 Cities
Berlin,Germany 34200 1,9%
Moscow,Russian Federation 26561 1,4%
Munich,Germany 17936 1,0%
Hamburg,Germany 16951 0,9%
Madrid,Spain 13405 0,7%
London,United Kingdom 12411 0,7%
Vienna,Austria 12013 0,7%
Warsaw,Poland 11878 0,6%
Milan,Italy 11772 0,6%
Karlsruhe,Germany 10724 0,6%

Last update on Sun Nov 22 06:08:44 CET 2009