August 2007 usage statistics

Now that I’m caught up on stats after having published them for June and July, and now that it’s September, it’s time to publish stats for August.

Overall usage is up a surprising 15% over July, and 25% since May. Vista usage is still growing strongly, and is up another 17% over July and 47% since May! Even the 64-bit slice of the pie saw good growth, showing a 10% increase. Sadly, 64-bit is still only 1.25% of the user base.

	July	August	July -> August
Total Hits	1,025,580	1,182,822	+15.33%
Hits Per Day	33,083	38,156

32-bit	98.83%	98.75%	-0.08%
64-bit	1.17%	1.25%	+6.55%

Windows XP	86.53%	84.29%	-2.59%
Windows 2003	0.68%	0.66%	-2.29%
Windows Vista	12.79%	15.05%	+17.61%

English	46.39%	46.66%	+0.58%
German	18.37%	18.02%	-1.94%
French	8.23%	7.62%	-7.32%
Portuguese	6.03%	5.92%	-1.85%
Spanish	4.06%	4.58%	+12.94%
Japanese	2.40%	2.20%	-8.47%
Italian	2.09%	1.67%	-20.00%
Netherlands	1 .71%	1.93%	+12.38%
Russian	1.45%	1.66%	+14.11%
Chinese (Simplified)	1.30%	1.51%	+16.17%
Polish	1.87%	1.87%	-0.15%
Chinese (Traditional)	0.92%	0.92%	+0.62%
Turkey	0.69%	0.74%	+6.81%
Korean	0.68%	0.63%	-8.33%
The rest	3.80%	4.08%	+7.36%
Have translations	87.46%	87.13%	-0.38%
Don’t have translation	12.54%	12.87%	2.62%

For the next release of Paint.NET, I am planning on adding some extra telemetry. Namely, I want to be able to count the total number of installations, first-time installations versus upgrade installations, and first-time runs of the application. This will let me gather some more useful information about the actual size of the Paint.NET installed base. The reporting will be completely anonymous, but of course be something you may opt out of.