As some of you might know I am an active contributor to bpython. Hence my last two posts about that project.
You might also know I maintain the website for bpython. A more hidden fact might be that I like my statistics. I have decided to share those statistics about bpython with you as to give some insight on how much you might expect from a small open source project.
These statistics only reflect the traffic being directed towards the server where the bpython domain runs on (and, coincidentally, the bpaste domain). bpython is also available in many package managers (debian, ubuntu, freebsd, gentoo, to name a few). Those repositories do not cause a request to be served by the server.
Let me start with a big number, over the time bpython has been hosted by me it has been downloaded in excess of 25 000 times. I started hosting the website in june 2009 so that equates to a little over 2 500 downloads per month, or 80 downloads per day. This number is the only number I can confirm as I do have very little insight in installations being done through package managers (popcon offers little relief). However, I need to be honest, these numbers do not include recurrent downloads people do for upgrading their package. They do count the installations done through PyPi (easy_install, pip) as those just look up the package on our server.
We currently have a little over 4 500 pastes on bpaste in the six months that has been online. Over the past nine months we have had over 70 000 visitors on our website who transferred a total of 100 GB. Most of the traffic due to Bob’s screencast.
I am extremely pleased with these numbers, I just wished I could have a bit more insight in our current installation base. I don’t know how many people currently have bpython installed, or how many removed it again.
A fun thing to share with you people might be this graphic, depicting what a featuring on Reddit’s programming front page will do for your visitor count.
