{"id":398,"date":"2009-10-01T22:32:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2009-10-01T22:36:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T20:36:19","slug":"xmppjabber-clients-and-os-usage-statistics-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"XMPP\/Jabber clients and OS usage statistics (5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Previous editions: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=174\">2005<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=176\">2006<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=234\">2007<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/?p=284\">march 2008<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Here are my (almost) yearly stats about XMPP\/Jabber clients (OK, the last one was 18 months ago).<\/p>\n<p>1250 users were online on the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabber.apinc.org\">Apinc Jabber server<\/a> when I ran the poll, and 1192 clients answered. This year, I&#8217;ve also used Disco to poll the clients, allowing to detect Telepathy (thanks Sjoerd for the tip!).<\/p>\n<p><b>Clients:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pidgin 43% (2008: 27%)<\/li>\n<li>Gajim 19% (2008: 20%)<\/li>\n<li>Psi 9% (2008: 16%)<\/li>\n<li>Kopete 7% (2008: 14%)<\/li>\n<li>Adium 5% (2008: 6%)<\/li>\n<li>BitlBee 2% (2008: &lt;=2%)<\/li>\n<li>Telepathy 2% (2008 unknown)<\/li>\n<li>Other clients with less than 2%: iChat, Pandion, Miranda, mcabber, Smack, meebo, Trillian. All other clients had less than 5 users online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The systems and distributions stats are biased, because some clients don&#8217;t disclose that information, or worse, give wrong information (Psi reports running Debian when on Ubuntu).<\/p>\n<p><b>Systems:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unknown 57% (Pidgin doesn&#8217;t report the OS) (2008: 36%)<\/li>\n<li>GNU\/Linux 24% (2008: 40%)<\/li>\n<li>Windows 15% (2008: 17%)<\/li>\n<li>MacOS 2% (2008: 5%)<\/li>\n<li>Others 0% (3 FreeBSD, 2 OpenBSD)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Linux distributions:<\/b><br \/>\n164 clients reported a Linux distribution (249 last year).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ubuntu 44% (2008: 45%)<\/li>\n<li>Debian 23% (2008: 36%)<\/li>\n<li>Arch Linux: 9% (2008: 1%)<\/li>\n<li>Gentoo: 9% (2008: 10%)<\/li>\n<li>Fedora: 7% (2008: 5%)<\/li>\n<li>Mandriva: 5% (2008: 3%)<\/li>\n<li>Slackware: 2% (2008: 1%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Comments:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The top 5 clients are the same, in the same order, but Pidgin&#8217;s lead is increasing. Gajim stays stable at the second place, while the two Qt-based clients, Psi and Kopete, both lose a lot of market share.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently the Mac hype is gone, at least for Jabber users. Or it&#8217;s just that all Mac users use Pidgin, which doesn&#8217;t report the OS.<\/li>\n<li>Regarding Linux distributions, Arch Linux gained a lot of market share over the last year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Previous editions: 2005, 2006, 2007 and march 2008) Here are my (almost) yearly stats about XMPP\/Jabber clients (OK, the last one was 18 months ago). 1250 users were online on the Apinc Jabber server when I ran the poll, and 1192 clients answered. This year, I&#8217;ve also used Disco to poll the clients, allowing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jabber","category-jabberfr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lucas-nussbaum.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}