I had an email in my mailbox this morning which I’d not seen before:
The domain psi-im.org (psi) is about to exceed their bandwidth limit
Now bear in mind this limit is somewhat artificial as I host the website myself and the quota was just a random number I pulled out of my hat. But it was a pretty big number. A year ago, we would usually run through about 30-35 GB of bandwidth in a month. (Bear in mind, this does not include actual software downloads—those are hosted on Sourceforge. I’ll get to that.)
We used over one-hundred-and-nineteen gigabytes of bandwidth in the month of July, 2008. And that’s just for the website itself! We do not host a single tarball, zip archive or Mac disk image on the site.
For the benefit of those on the Psi groupchat this morning (available at psi@conference.psi-im.org), I broke the stats down a bit, and I was asked to share them here as well.
Traffic by sub-domain:
- blog.psi-im.org 5.91MB / planet.psi-im.org 1.68GB (both point to the same place)
- flyspray.psi-im.org 8.75GB (our bug tracker)
- forum.psi-im.org 34.21GB (not too surprising, given our strong community)
- psi-im.org 74.97GB
Daily average number of unique visitors:
July 2008: 4102
Top Countries (by number of hits):
(Top-level domains .net and .com excluded.)
- Russia
- Poland
- Czech Republic
- Germany
- Brazil
- Ukraine
- Slovakia
- Italy
- Australia
- France
- Bulgaria
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
And last but not least…
Download Statistics
Unfortunately, I can’t get very specific on these as Sourceforge’s stats engine is down for upgrades right now (has been for a few weeks…grr). What I can say is we generally average around 1,500 downloads of Psi—every single day. That was as of a month ago or so but is very typical.
There is one number that I can get specific about.
Total Downloads
Now this number is actually low because it doesn’t include the release candidates and it may not include downloads in the last few weeks because of the stats overhaul. (SF claims they are keeping track.). But anyway, here goes.
Total downloads of Psi official releases (going all the way back to 0.86, released in 2002), only including the Windows zip archive and executable installer, the source tarball, and the Mac disk image. Not including any of our unofficial contributed builds or the Linux distribution packages……drum roll please…
1,997,919
Wow. All I can say is thanks to the loyal users of Psi!
Source Code Statistics
And by request, source code stats.
Well, don’t we have the language pack downloads hosted on psi-im.org?
Not that it should matter a lot, they are >> 1500 * 0.3MB * 31
13950MB
Well at least it’s worth a look at the detailed stats.
– Martin
True, true. I forgot about those.
What is the eastern European and Russian connection with Jabber?
I know that certain IM services have geographic dominance, I’m just curious on the pick up of Jabber in these regions. Perhaps the knowledge could be used to help market Jabber in other areas.
It seems that instant messaging is very much a cultural thing. You see ICQ in use in Europe much more so than in the US, for example. Of course there’s Gadu-Gadu which was made in Eastern Europe, that’s very popular over there. Jabber has always had a very high concentration of Eastern European users. I don’t know what drives this but it has always been this way.
The answer is easy: jabber has NO problems with encodings.
Firefox knows seven (!) encodings for russian, and at least 3 of them are still alive and used.
By the way, I don’t count unicode
There you go. Makes perfect sense to me.
But how do they get to know about it? Word of mouth perhaps?
Word of mouth would be big, I’m sure. We also get a lot of hits from Google and Jabber.org.
Looking at the country stats, maybe you should change the default language of the site to something else than english.
LOL! Note that I inserted the sentence “excluded .net & .com” above.
Let’s see what’d happen after launching Psi 0.12 (-:E
Just one sidenote: I believe the website underwent a big change last year. So that may also explain a part of the difference.
Speaking about traffic stats, the Coccinella website always generates 0GB/month thanks to a bug in the Plesk statistics counter of our hoster (cfr Florian)…not that that is a bad thing…free bandwidth! ;D
Hi
This is pretty cool! Psi is pretty cool, too! One additional information about downloads, michalj (psi team member? – at least forum moderator) provides nightly builds – many of my colleagues download that versions (http://psi-daisy.uaznia.net/Psi-0.12/). So probably total downloads is much, much more
What about svn.psi-im.org statistic? Is it available?
I’ve added some source code stats to the post that come from http://www.ohloh.net/projects/psi.
I’ve added source code stats to the post above from Ohloh.com.