Ubuntu Popularity

[paul cooke]

On Thursday 22 December 2005 20:52, Mike Bird wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 22:04, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > I would suggest you stop and take a look at the following (crude)
> > break down on page views for the past three months at DistroWatch
> > <http://www.distrowatch.com/index.php?dataspan=13>:
> > Rank	Distribution	Hits Per Day
> > 1	Ubuntu	2739
> > 2	SUSE	1891
> > 3	Mandriva	1801
> > 4	Fedora	1030
>
> Eric,
>
> Those figures are certainly interesting.  However, they count
> views of the page describing Ubuntu, not people actually using
> Ubuntu.  Most of the people viewing that page are people who
> have heard about Ubuntu and are considering switching but are
> not actually running Ubuntu yet.
>
> It's already been noted that Ubuntu was invisible in Netcraft's
> server rankings, but that measure is subject to the criticism
> that Ubuntu has not yet put out a proper server release.
>
> I therefore analysed the last million hits at a national-
> -brand website with largely teen and young adult demographics.
> (To avoid bias, I first filtered out the accesses from our
> office and customer systems - about 0.3% of the total hits.)
>
>   PERCENTAGE OF ALL HITS
>   Linux                0.13%
>   Macintosh            3.08%
>   SunOS                0.01%
>   Other               96.78%
>
>
>   PERCENTAGE OF LINUX HITS
>   Debian                3.7%
>   Fedora                0.1%
>   Mandrake              0.0%
>   Mandriva              2.2%
>   Redhat                0.0%
>   SUSE                  0.2%
>   Ubuntu                5.7%
>   Anonymous            88.4%
>
> It turns out that 88.4% of user agent hits which included the
> Linux string did not include a recognisable distro.  Although
> Ubuntu and Kubuntu include the distro name in their Firefox
> and Konqueror user-agent strings this is rare.
>
> I also analysed the 50.4% of Linux hits which were from either
> Firefox or Konqueror:
>
>   PERCENTAGE OF FIREFOX OR KONQUEROR LINUX HITS
>   Kubuntu/Konqueror     5.9%
>   Mandriva/Firefox      4.3%
>   SUSE/Firefox          0.3%
>   Ubuntu/Firefox        0.8%
>   Anonymous/Konqueror  14.4%
>   Anonymous/Firefox    75.0%
>
> >From this unbiased but limited data, it appears that Kubuntu
>
> is doing well in the KDE world but that Ubuntu is lagging.
>
> As always, better statistics would be welcome if anyone has
> them.
>
> --Mike Bird

try these:

http://counter.li.org/reports/machines.php

not based on web page hits but actual machines registered by users.