Vassal download statistics

General Discussion
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Now that Vassal 3.7.22 is released, perhaps it is time to take a bit of stock of current download trends.

First, a graph of the number of downloads over time

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What this shows is

  • The overall number of downloads has decreased 3.7.15 - some of which can be explained by more rapid releases, and maybe not everyone is keeping up.
  • 3.7.21 was the first release to see an .rpm package included which is why it is shown as a single dot.
  • 3.7.19 was the first release to see a .deb package included, which has seen a steady increase in downloads
  • Windows downloads are still clearly the most popular download, though the i386 and arm platforms is relatively rare.

Second, a graph of the relative number of downloads

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  • Windows seem to be on the slight relative decline, with i386 and arm declining faster.
  • MacOS and Linux are comparably on the rise.
  • The .deb package seems to take over a lot of the previous generic Linux packages.

Since the lifetime of Vassal releases differ a lot, another way to look at the data is to look at the number of downloads per day.

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Each “box” is as wide - along the abscissa, or x axis - as the number of days that release was the most recent release. The height of each “box” is the average number of downloads of that release per day. Thus, the area of each box is the total number of downloads of a given release.

What we see, is that sometimes, especially after a relatively long lived release, there is a spike in the rate of downloads.

Overall,

  • Vassal has roughly 40,000 of users, with roughly 500, on average, downloads per day.
  • Most of these (two thirds) are using Vassal on Windows
  • MacOS users make two thirds of the remaining users, while Linux users make up roughly one third of the remainig.

Yours,
Christian