Let's talk about numbers

Jean-Baptiste Kempf — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:46:00 +0200

VLC numbers

One of the most asked question is about the VLC download numbers. Don't ask me why, this comes all the time back on the subject.

We decided for the 1.1.x releases to use the new sourceforge download service.

There were 2 main reasons to do so:

it provides quite interesting statistics and numbers per file, per OS, per date...
it makes a 3rd party count our numbers, so we can't be accused of cheating, as we were accused in the past.

Therefore, I'll give a few insights on VLC 1.1.x (1.1.0, 1.1.1 and 1.1.2) download stats.

1.1.x download stats

Those download numbers have been done in the first 50 days after the VLC 1.1.0 release.

Average

The average is around 640k (640000) downloads per day, in total, on the official mirror (sourceforge).

This accounts to around 19 million downloads per month...

Operating systems

This OS repartition is quite simple:

Win32 is 86,7%
Mac OS X is 13%
Source is around 0,3%

Of course, this doesn't mean that we don't have any Linux users. It is just that they use their distributions, which is the correct way to do it.

Countries repartition

One the most interesting topic is the repartition per country.

Here is the diagram of the most important downloading countries.

USA is 14,5%
Germany and France are both a bit above 10%
Italy, India and UK are around 5%

Numbers for smaller countries are available on request.

Update vs Direct download

The last important number I will share with you today is the repartition between direct downloads from the website against update from within VLC.

Direct downloads are around 40% of the total downloads
Updates are therefore 60% of the total downloads

This explains why the videolan.org website doesn't get 19 million visitors per month, but just around 8 or 9 million.

SourceForge Award Trophee for VLC

Jean-Baptiste Kempf — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:10:00 -0800

SourceForget Awards

As some of you know it, VLC media player won a Community Choice Award this year (2008). Organised by our friend from SourceForge, this was the first year that the contest was opened to outside the strict SourceForge Community.

The award just arrived to my house, and I can now share some photos.

Thanks

The whole VideoLAN Team would love to thanks so many times people from SourceForge.net and from their overlord SourceForge Inc. for their dedication, time and work around this event.

Special Kudos go to Ross Turk.

Photos

You can find all the photos on VideoLAN's people.

Trivia

The award ceremony was during the OSCON '08 in Portland, that I attended.

However, I did not know that we were selected for the finals, so, during the ceremony, I was geeking with some Qt4 dude I had meet there... No comment...

Anyway, this was fun and great and I am so glad for everything.

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