Usage share of BitTorrent clients

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The usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client, regardless of version.

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, this data was used by TorrentFreak in the table below:

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;
12 years 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%
557,536
torrentfreakEZTV 4 December 2009;
14 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%
357,301,730
forum.tribler.org 18 October 2009;
14 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%
17,221
torrentfreak.com 14 August 2009;
14 years ago (2009-08-14)		 ? 56.81% 18.13% 11.79% 4.71% 2.95% ? ? 4.21% ? ? 1.40% 100%
165,000+
torrentfreak.com 24 June 2009;
14 years ago (2009-06-24)		 ? 55.84% 16.85% 12.01% 6.50% 1.60% ? ? 4.02% ? ? 3.17% 100%
150,000+

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.

Global install rate data from: Digital Music News
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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