Usage share of BitTorrent clients
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This article's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. (April 2012) |
The usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client. For example, when it is said that the official BitTorrent client has 12% usage share, it means that some version of BitTorrent client is used by 12% of users.
2009
Delft University of Technology
A study by the Tribler P2P research team at the Delft University of Technology. To generate this data, samples were taken from a number of swarms of users which were then used to identify which BitTorrent client each user was using.
| Source | Date & Age | Xunlei |
μTorrent |
Vuze |
BitTorrent (mainline) |
BitComet |
Transmission |
BitSpirit |
FlashGet |
Unknown |
Tuotu |
Libtorrent (Rasterbar) |
Other |
Sample Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | 16 September 2011 | ? | 47.97% 267,466 |
22.49% 125,417 |
13.01% 72,536 |
1.01% 5,638 |
7% 39,011 |
? | ? | 6.22% 34,703 |
? | 1.02% 5,703 |
1.27% 7,062 |
100% 557,536 |
| torrentfreakEZTV | 4 December 2009 | 29.31% 104,717,386 |
25.77% 92,086,035 |
24.08% 86,055,354 |
4.82% 17,207,544 |
4.31% 15,403,400 |
3.26% 11,637,110 |
2% 7,132,119 |
1.09% 3,882,628 |
1% 3,590,584 |
0.71% 2,531,472 |
0.63% 2,251,736 |
3.02% 10,806,362 |
100% 357,301,730 |
| forum.tribler.org | 18 October 2009 | 0.02% 3 |
60.16% 10,361 |
14.22% 2,449 |
8.65% 1,489 |
4.43% 763 |
3.65% 628 |
? | ? | 7.97% 1,373 |
? | 0.31% 53 |
0.59% 102 |
100% 17,221 |
| torrentfreak.com | 14 August 2009 | ? | 56.81% | 18.13% | 11.79% | 4.71% | 2.95% | ? | ? | 4.21% | ? | ? | 1.40% | 100% 165,000+ |
| torrentfreak.com | 24 June 2009 | ? | 55.84% | 16.85% | 12.01% | 6.50% | 1.60% | ? | ? | 4.02% | ? | ? | 3.17% | 100% 150,000+ |
TorrentFreak user survey
An open access poll created on the TorrentFreak.com website. The poll was featured by Vuze in their application which may have skewed the results.
| Rank |
BitTorrent client |
Votes |
% |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vuze | 23,265 | 57.419 |
| 2 | μTorrent | 11,874 | 29.305 |
| 3 | Transmission | 1,327 | 3.275 |
| 4 | BitComet | 1,243 | 3.068 |
| 5 | BitTorrent (mainline) | 597 | 1.473 |
| 6 | Other | 512 | 1.264 |
| 7 | rTorrent | 484 | 1.195 |
| 8 | Deluge | 428 | 1.056 |
| 9 | BitLord | 422 | 1.042 |
| 10 | KTorrent | 216 | 0.533 |
2007
Digital Music News
Digital Music News collected the data from PC Pitstop, a company that gathers data from computers using their free online virus and malware scanners. The program scans Windows Registry to find which clients have been installed, more than a million Microsoft Windows computers were surveyed.
| Rank | Application | Install % on Windows desktops |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LimeWire | 18% |
| 2 | μTorrent | 5.56% |
| 3 | BitTorrent (mainline) | 2.28% |
| 4 | Vuze | 2.11% |
| 5 | BitComet | 1.89% |
| 6 | Bitlord | 1.27% |
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