ReactOS 0.3.11 release report

[Aleksey Bragin]

        Hello,
some statistical information about our latest release - 0.3.11,
released 16th of Dec, 2009.
Website experienced visitors increase starting 16.12.2009 with almost
12 000 unique visits and slowly fading out to normal 5 000 by 24th of
December. The peak value of 16 500 unique visits was registered the
next day after release announcement - 17th of December.
Main traffic sources for this date period were:
1. Direct traffic - 24k visits
2. Google - 15k
3. habrahabr.ru - 4200
4. osnews.com - 3700
5. techradar.com - 2000
6. meneame.net - 1500
7. golem.de - 1200
8. linux.org.ru - 850
As for countries, it's the first time Russia outperformed Germany and
moved to the 2nd place after the United States. Good work of our
Russian PR colleagues! Also, Spain is now on the fourth place, which
means vicmarcal and his colleagues really did a good job to bring
their country to such high position. The Top 10 looks this way:
1. USA
2. Russia
3. Germany
4. Spain
5. China
6. Ukraine
7. Poland
8. Italy
9. UK
10. Brazil.
  UK still provided rather low visitors count, though it has a high
potential. More expansion to the United Kingdom is needed.
And it's a fashion trend now to quote web browsers popularity, let's
use this chance and say Top 5 of web browsers used to visit our
website during release period:
1. Mozilla FireFox (my congratulations to Mozilla team!) - 40k
2. Internet Explorer - 12k
3. Chrome - 10k (not bad for a start!)
4. Opera - 9k
5. Safari - 2.7k
Release images were as usual published at SourceForge.NET, which has,
I think, the biggest file mirroring system for opensource projects.
Overall value by today is that all 0.3.11 related files were
downloaded 48,654 times since the moment of release. To compare,
0.3.10 was downloaded 2234,808 times, 0.3.9 101,405 times. Such small
value for 0.3.11 is explained by only 3 weeks which passed since the
moment of release, and that those 3 weeks had year's most important
holidays - Christmas and New Year.
It's also interesting to look what people are mostly interested in
from what we offer: the definite leader is plain installation ISO,
which is downloaded almost 19,000 times.
Second place is occupied by the LiveCD with almost 12,000 downloads,
which shows how important it is to have a working LiveCD for us.
Third place is the VMWare preinstalled image with 6,000 downloads and
fourth place is VirtualBox with 5,000 downloads. VMWare still leads,
but VirtualBox did a nice catch up, outperforming QEmu preinstalled
image which has only 4,000 downloads.
The least downloaded file is the 0.3.11 source code with only
slightly more than 2,000 downloads so far.
WBR,
Aleksey Bragin.

[Ged Murphy]

It's also interesting to note that this is the first time we've released a
VirtualBox image, and it was uploaded a few days after the others went up.
See the note at the bottom of the news article for info on reasons why :
http://www.reactos.org/en/news_page_55.html
So the fact that it immediately jumped above qemu goes to show the
importance of VirtualBox now.
Ged.
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Third place is the VMWare preinstalled image with 6,000 downloads and
fourth place is VirtualBox with 5,000 downloads. VMWare still leads,
but VirtualBox did a nice catch up, outperforming QEmu preinstalled
image which has only 4,000 downloads.

[Frank Van Damme]

2010/1/7 Aleksey Bragin <aleksey(a)reactos.org>rg>:
>          Hello,
>  some statistical information about our latest release - 0.3.11,
>  released 16th of Dec, 2009. 
<rest  SNIPPED>
Nice to see there is some interest in this project. With some luck,
that means at least 40000 people are now trying out an open source
alternative to Windows, even if it is still in alpha stage. It's
amazing that ReactOS even succeeds in running popular Windows
applications.
Personally, I downloaded every one of the latest, say, 5 releases and
had a good laugh with the splash screen of 0.3.11 :-). So keep up the
good work, it might one day prove to be very useful.
--
Frank Van Damme