Usage share of BitTorrent clients

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 μTorrent
Vuze
BitTorrent
(mainline)
BitComet
Transmission
BitSpirit
FlashGet
Unknown
Tuotu
libtorrent Xunlei
Other
Sample
Size
TorrentFreak 16 September 2011 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
TorrentFreak
EZTV
4 December 2009 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
29.31%
104,717,386
3.02%
10,806,362
100%
357,301,730
Tribler 18 October 2009 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
0.02%
3
0.59%
102
100%
17,221
TorrentFreak 14 August 2009 56.81% 18.13% 11.79% 4.71% 2.95% ? ? 4.21% ? ? ? 1.40% 100%
165,000+
TorrentFreak 24 June 2009 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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