{"id":1066,"date":"2009-10-01T18:55:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2009-10-01T18:55:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T16:55:25","slug":"monthly-stats-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Monthly stats &#8211; September 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Donations &amp; Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Donors:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$600 (3rd donation), Philippe Lotz aka &#8220;alsaphil&#8221; (France)<\/li>\n<li> $150 (2nd donation), Alan D S. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $100, Carl &#8211; Y. B. (Sweden)<\/li>\n<li> $100, Phillip N. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $100, Marcos Scriven (United Kingdom) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboxo.com\">http:\/\/www.aboxo.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $75, John Di Stefano (Canada)<\/li>\n<li> $50 (3rd donation), Gordon Hilliard aka &#8220;ghilly&#8221; (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $50, Serge-Etienne Parent (Canada)<\/li>\n<li> $50, Rev. Bernard Quinn aka &#8220;Chiff&#8221; (Australia)<\/li>\n<li> $50, Tim L. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $50, Hawkeye_52 (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $50, Peter S. (Australia)<\/li>\n<li> $50, Wayne W. (Canada)<\/li>\n<li> $45, Jason A. (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $45, Pau Carre Cardona (Spain)<\/li>\n<li> $44, Oerpen T. (Germany)<\/li>\n<li> $41, Ronnie Rosenqvist aka &#8220;DrRP&#8221; (Sweden)<\/li>\n<li> $40, Mary M. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $39, Jean-Paul Genette (Belgium)<\/li>\n<li> $37, Manuel F. (Portugal)<\/li>\n<li> $30, Marvin W. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $30, Daniel W. (World) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadstube.net\">http:\/\/www.downloadstube.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $28, Dewi P. (World)<\/li>\n<li> $28, Soulakellis K. (Greece)<\/li>\n<li> $28, Frantisek Sofka aka &#8220;peso00 &#8221; (Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<li> $28, Francisco C. C. (Spain)<\/li>\n<li> $28, Christoph H. (Germany)<\/li>\n<li> $28, Joakim R. (Finland)<\/li>\n<li> $26, Haynes J. aka &#8220;Wi11i@m&#8221; (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $25, Norman Skiba aka &#8220;GrayWizardLinux&#8221; (USA) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k-9training.us\">http:\/\/www.k-9training.us<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $25, Douglas A. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $25, Jan Z. (Sweden)<\/li>\n<li> $25, Mark B. (Australia)<\/li>\n<li> $25, Rich Hladky (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $25, M H R. (Australia)<\/li>\n<li> $25, Jay Stewart aka &#8220;jag1182&#8221; (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $25, Denys F. (Canada)<\/li>\n<li> $25, Ronald T. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $22, Steven Rattray (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $20, Ricardo Calimanis aka &#8220;linux.nyx&#8221; (Brazil) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/goetti.blogspot.com\">http:\/\/goetti.blogspot.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $20, Mark C. aka &#8220;geekman&#8221; (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $20, Jay Butcher (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $20, Chris Kemp-Jackson (Canada)<\/li>\n<li> $20, Andrew A. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $20, William R. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $20, Dalibor Saula (Australia)<\/li>\n<li> $20, Jens B. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $20, Finn-Erik H. (Norway)<\/li>\n<li> $20, Tim C. (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $15, Nigel Dyer aka &#8220;NigelDyer56&#8221; (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $15, Jim H. (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $15, Russ W. (World)<\/li>\n<li> $14, Stephen M. (Ireland)<\/li>\n<li> $14, Lasse H. (Finland)<\/li>\n<li> $14, Marek Polasek (Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<li> $14, Mikkel M. (Denmark)<\/li>\n<li> $14, Lee Sturman aka &#8220;Hammerlee&#8221; (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $14, Holger F. (Germany)<\/li>\n<li> $14, Enrique O. (Spain)<\/li>\n<li> $14, MJH van der W. (Netherlands)<\/li>\n<li> $11, Nick Koumaris (Greece) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightrap.net\">http:\/\/www.lightrap.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $10 (2nd donation), Douglas S. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Scott M. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, \u5ba4\u6d25 \u6075\u4e09 (Japan)<\/li>\n<li> $10, William S. (World)<\/li>\n<li> $10, John C. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Troy C. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Michael N. (Sweden)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Zoran (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Serguei S. (Russia)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Adnan C. (Germany)<\/li>\n<li> $10, James G. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Kevin C. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Grzegorz G. (Poland)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Leonardo S. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Garrett H. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Christopher B. (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Ryan J. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Raphael C. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Matt E. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $10, Karthikanand K. (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $7, Florian G. (Germany)<\/li>\n<li> $7, Evzen H. (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $7, Isabel F. (Portugal)<\/li>\n<li> $7, Motta L. (Italy)<\/li>\n<li> $7, Ralf S. (Germany)<\/li>\n<li> $6, Loonie Bazaar (Canada) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looniebazaar.com\">http:\/\/www.looniebazaar.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $5, Havary Camara aka &#8220;justflea&#8221; (Brazil)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Kris Occhipinti (USA) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bashscripts.info\">http:\/\/www.bashscripts.info<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $5, Stephen B. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Daifallah A. (Saudi Arabia)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Khuong D. N. (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Tobias H. aka &#8220;bisato&#8221; (Germany)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Mateus H. (Brazil)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Eaves L. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Enrico Galli (Italy) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egw.it\">http:\/\/www.egw.it<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $5, Lubos Rendek (World) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxconfig.org\">http:\/\/www.linuxconfig.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li> $5, Marcus H. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Michael K. (USA)<\/li>\n<li> $5, Slavoljub M. (Norway)<\/li>\n<li> $3, Nils K. (Germany)<\/li>\n<li> $3, Mohd Z. (Malaysia)<\/li>\n<li> $2, Lubomir J. (Czech Republic)<\/li>\n<li> $1, Jaime M. (World)<\/li>\n<li> $1, B F (Suriname)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sponsors:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$105, R1Soft \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r1soft.com\/tools\/linux-hot-copy\/?ls=linuxmint\">http:\/\/www.r1soft.com\/tools\/linux-hot-copy\/?ls=linuxmint<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$75, John Ritchie\t\t\t (Aging Technogeek \u2013 USA)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$45, Linux Compatible Poker (USA) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com\/\">http:\/\/www.linuxcompatiblepoker.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$40, Az Van (newW2 \u2013 USA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$25, <\/span>American Broadband Family of Companies (USA) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbroadbandservice.com\/\">http:\/\/www.americanbroadbandservice.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$20, TOPIMMOBILIEN (Tim \u2013 Germany) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.immobilien-es.com\/\">http:\/\/www.immobilien-es.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$20, <\/span>Scott P. (USA)<\/li>\n<li>$15, Russ W.<\/li>\n<li>$11, cheap vps hosting \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neosurge.com\/\">http:\/\/www.neosurge.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$10, Stitz Computers, LLC (USA) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/stitzcomputers.com\/\">http:\/\/stitzcomputers.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$10, Rechtsberatung, Steuerberatung, Internetrecht (Tim) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de\/\">http:\/\/www.rechtsundsteuerberatung.de<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$10 Gustav Holm (Sweden) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/gustavholm.com\/\">http:\/\/gustavholm.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$10, Brandon P.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$7, Unixmen \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unixmen.com\/\">http:\/\/www.unixmen.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$7, Panagiotis Papasaikas (Greece) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/ppapasai\/\">http:\/\/www.andrew.cmu.edu\/user\/ppapasai\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$7, Jesse Burroughs (JpB\u044f \u2013 USA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$5, linuxmint-fr.org (ludal \u2013 France) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint-fr.org\/\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint-fr.org<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$5, linuxmint-italia.org (Pietro Martino \/ prior123 \u2013 Italy) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint-italia.org\/\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint-italia.org<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$5, Sohier C.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$5, Christopher D.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$5, DLX Company (USA) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlxcompany.com\/\">http:\/\/www.dlxcompany.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$5, <\/span>Stuart C.<\/li>\n<li>$5, Paul S.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$3.5, Ian Egland (Echolynx \u2013 USA)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$2, Joerg Dreckmann (Germany)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$2, Funkelectric (Spain) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funkelectric.com\/\">http:\/\/www.funkelectric.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$2, <\/span>NVISN TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS AND CONSULTING (USA) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nvisn.com\/\">http:\/\/www.nvisn.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$2, Ryan Lewon (vt102) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/vt102.com\/\">http:\/\/vt102.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$2, Scott M.<\/li>\n<li>$1.5, Farbyte (UK) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/farbyte.com\">http:\/\/farbyte.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, very-clever.com &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.very-clever.com\/\">http:\/\/www.very-clever.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, Busybits &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.busybits.com\/\">http:\/\/www.busybits.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, linboo.com &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linboo.com\/\">http:\/\/www.linboo.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, Expert Bookings &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expert-bookings.com\/\">http:\/\/www.expert-bookings.com<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, <\/span>Cyprus Property (Cyprus) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leptosestates.com\/\">http:\/\/www.leptosestates.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$1, \u041d\u0435\u0434\u0432\u0438\u0436\u0438\u043c\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u043d\u0430 \u041a\u0438\u043f\u0440\u0435 (Cyprus) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leptos-estates.ru\/\">http:\/\/www.leptos-estates.ru\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>$1, Cyprus Resale (Cyprus) &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyprusresaleproperties.com\/\">http:\/\/www.cyprusresaleproperties.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, Prasad S.R. (India) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/saysprasad.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/saysprasad.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, Surf in Peace (UK) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfinpeace.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.surfinpeace.co.uk\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1 <\/span>Jakub Jasiulewicz (Poland) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/jasiulewicz.pl\/\">http:\/\/jasiulewicz.pl<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, Erin G.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, Greg Flynn (South Africa)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$1, Liquidvps.net \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liquidvps.net\/\">http:\/\/www.liquidvps.net<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$0.9, Michael K.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$0.5, Martijn van Loon (aapiethaaap \u2013 Netherlands)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">$0.5, <\/span>Nottingham web design (UK) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawmyattention.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/www.drawmyattention.co.uk\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Money raised in August:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">* Donations: $2951 (105 donors)<br \/>\n* Sponsors: $481.9 (46 sponsors)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a href=\"..\/..\/donors.php\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/donors.php<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/..\/sponsors.php\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/sponsors.php<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>User Stats:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Repartition of Linux Mint users across releases:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Linux Mint 7 Gloria: 78% (+3%)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Linux Mint 6 Felicia: 14% (-1%)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Linux Mint 5 Elyssa LTS: 6% (-1%)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna: 3% (-0%)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Web Stats:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Visits: <\/span><span>1,981,352<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span> (+6<\/span><span>%<\/span><span>)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Pageviews: <\/span><span>3,409,953<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span> (+2<\/span><span>%<\/span><span>)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Page impressions: <\/span>1,363,287<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Search queries: <\/span>4,423,092<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Forum users: 21,397<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Forum posts: 184,959<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Rankings:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Distrowatch (popularity ranking): 1304 (3rd)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Distrowatch (traffic share): 4.1% (2nd)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alexa (website ranking): 27,745th<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Events:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Linux Mint 7 Gloria XFCE was released: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1026\">http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=1026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">mintCast released 2 episodes of their podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/mintcast.org\/\">http:\/\/mintcast.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 2009 was the (7th consecutive) best month ever since the creation of Linux Mint.<\/li>\n<li>The overall income is up 10%.<\/li>\n<li>Our user base is the second largest in the desktop Linux market.<\/li>\n<li>The community support is outstanding: 105 people donated last month for a total of $2951 and our sponsors raised $481.9.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donations &amp; Sponsorships: Many thanks to the following donors and sponsors for financially supporting Linux Mint: Donors: $600 (3rd donation), Philippe Lotz aka &#8220;alsaphil&#8221; (France) $150 (2nd donation), Alan D S. 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