Chuck's Delphi Download Statistics
From August 1997 to January 1998
Corporate Stats
The list of corporate domains that have downloaded the components reveals
the following companies have an interest in Delphi:
- Automakers: Chrysler and Ford
- Software Industry: Borland, Installshield, Intuit, Oracle, Seagate
- Electronics Giants: Compaq, GE, Lucent, Rockwell, Sony, Xerox
- Other notables include:
- Airborne Express, Allied Signal, Chase Manhatten Bank, Dupont
- Fedex, JP Morgan, Kodak, Levi Strauss, SAIC
Component stats
Next I analyzed which components were getting downloaded..
- A total of 13354 files downloaded
- Delphi 3 versions were downloaded more than twice as much as Delphi 2 versions
- Delphi 2 versions were downloaded almost twice as much as Delphi 1 versions
- My most popular component so far is the fxDbNav navigator component.
| Delphi 1 | Delphi 2 | Delphi 3 | Total |
| fxComm | n/a | 452 | 891 | 1343 |
| fxDbBtn | 379 | 626 | 1790 | 2795 |
| fxDbNav | 720 | 1183 | 3507 | 5410 |
| fxLocate | 103 | 143 | 285 | 531 |
| fxRptBtn | 279 | 377 | 681 | 1337 |
| fxTurtle | 296 | 437 | 1205 | 1938 |
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| Totals | 1777 | 3218 | 8359 | 13354 |
Geographic stats
Finally I analyzed where in the world the downloads came from. Here are the results...
- Uncle Sam (.GOV and .MIL hosts) downloaded 58 times.
That should be good for a tax break, right?
- Downloads were registered from 79 different nations
- Brazil (.BR) accounted for the most international downloads, followed by
- Germany (.DE), Poland (.PL), Spain (.ES), and Holland (.NL)