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.
Samples of Global BitTorrent Client Usage Share (Percent & Peers)| Source | Date & Age | Xunlei
| μTorrent
| Vuze
| BitTorrent
(mainline) | BitComet
| Transmission
| BitSpirit
| FlashGet
| Unknown
| Tuotu
| Libtorrent
(Rasterbar) | Other
| Sample
Size |
|---|
| torrentfreak.com | 16 September 2011;
17 months ago (2011-09-16) | ? | 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%
7005557536000000000557,536 |
| torrentfreakEZTV | 4 December 2009;
3 years ago (2009-12-04) | 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%
7008357301730000000357,301,730 |
| forum.tribler.org | 18 October 2009;
3 years ago (2009-10-18) | 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%
700417221000000000017,221 |
| torrentfreak.com | 14 August 2009;
3 years ago (2009-08-14) | ? | 56.81% | 18.13% | 11.79% | 4.71% | 2.95% | ? | ? | 4.21% | ? | ? | 1.40% | 100%
7005165000000000000165,000+ |
| torrentfreak.com | 24 June 2009;
3 years ago (2009-06-24) | ? | 55.84% | 16.85% | 12.01% | 6.50% | 1.60% | ? | ? | 4.02% | ? | ? | 3.17% | 100%
7005150000000000000150,000+ |
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.
TorrentFreak user survey:What is the Best BitTorrent Client?
Started:May 17, 2009; 3 years ago (2009-05-17) Updated:June 29, 2010; 2 years ago (2010-06-29) Total Votes:40,518|
| 70001000000000000001 | Vuze | 700423265000000000023,265 | 700157419000000000057.419 |
| 70002000000000000002 | μTorrent | 700411874000000000011,874 | 700129305000000000029.305 |
| 70003000000000000003 | Transmission | 70031327000000000001,327 | 70003275000000000003.275 |
| 70004000000000000004 | BitComet | 70031243000000000001,243 | 70003068000000000003.068 |
| 70005000000000000005 | BitTorrent (mainline) | 7002597000000000000597 | 70001473000000000001.473 |
| 70006000000000000006 | Other | 7002512000000000000512 | 70001264000000000001.264 |
| 70007000000000000007 | rTorrent | 7002484000000000000484 | 70001195000000000001.195 |
| 70008000000000000008 | Deluge | 7002428000000000000428 | 70001056000000000001.056 |
| 70009000000000000009 | BitLord | 7002422000000000000422 | 70001042000000000001.042 |
| 700110000000000000010 | KTorrent | 7002216000000000000216 | 69995330000000000000.533 |
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.
