Filesharing Report Shows Explosive Growth for uTorrent
Written by Ernesto on April 26, 2008New data on the ever changing P2P landscape shows that the number of uTorrent users worldwide has more than doubled compared to last year. The BitTorrent client is most popular in Europe - with an install rate of 11.6% - and least popular in the United States, where 5.1% of the PCs have uTorrent installed.
The data presented here are based on a sample of over a million PCs (Windows only), and were gathered by PC Pitstop.
A few months we already reported that uTorrent overtook Azureus’ position as the most installed BitTorrent application, and this trend continues. LimeWire’s popularity on the other hand is declining worldwide. Nonetheless, it is still by far the most installed filesharing application.
LimeWire going down, uTorrent on the rise
From December 2006 to December 2007 LimeWire lost approximately 25% of its user base. By the end of 2007, 17% of all PCs in the United States had LimeWire installed, compared to 23.3% last year. Similar drops occurred in Europe, Latin America, and the rest of the world. The most loyal LimeWire users come from Australia, where the install rate is 27%, only a slight decrease compared to the 30.4% in 2006.
The uTorrent user base on the other hand is rapidly growing. uTorrent installs more than doubled in nearly every part of the world in the last 12 months. The BitTorrent client is most popular in Europe (11.6%), as can be seen from the graph below.
As a result of uTorrent’s growth, other BitTorrent clients such as Azureus and BitComet are going downhill. Azureus and BitComet now have an average install rate of 1.4% and 1.7% respectively.
Regional Differences
The regional differences in popularity of p2p applications are also worth mentioning. The data show that uTorrent is far more popular in Europe (11.6%) than in the United States (5.1%). Limewire on the other hand is well-liked among Aussies (27.0%) and Canadians (27.2%), but has less followers in Latin America.
Emule is still very popular in Latin America, where 16% of the PCs have the application installed compared to only 1% in the United States and 3% in Europe.
Home vs. Business PCs
Unsurprisingly, P2P applications are more frequently installed on home computers versus PCs at the workplace. Nevertheless, almost one out of five PCs at work (18%) have at least one P2P application installed. For home computer this is little over 1 in three (36%)
P2P Market share 2008
We also compiled a pie chart of the market share of the different P2P applications as of January 1st 2008. Please note that the data is a bit skewed since most of the data comes from participants who were based in the United States. LimeWire is without a doubt the winner here.
Finally, we want to make it clear though that install rates do not equal usage. The fact that someone installed a P2P client does not mean that they actually use it.
Based on the amount of traffic that is generated by each P2P application, uTorrent would be the absolute winner.
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“A few months we already reported that uTorrent overtook Azureus’ position…”
Should be:
“A few months ago we already reported that uTorrent overtook Azureus’ position…”
BitSpirit is a real nice option.
Guess BitTorrent Inc. is getting their money worth.
the utorrent is excellent for managing a huge number of torrents. you can group and easily control them. it can’t be traded for any other.
The Pirate Bay should develop a bittorrent client. It could become easily the no.1 in the market.
Utorrent + Demonoid.com is all you need
Well I dunno, I use LimeWire for individual songs and BitTorrent for everything else. They are both different.
i also ban every version of uTorrent 1.70 and above. thank you az and stuffer. utorrent users can get bent.
Azureus is the best, Limewire is the worst like the iPod.
Good to see Australia up there as #1 or #2 in everything :D
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the “real pirates” aren’t using either of these
I’m not too familiar with BitTorrent Inc. All I know is that I cannot use uTorrent anymore (paranoid), because I’ve been caught twice by my cable provider for downloading a movie. One more strike and I’m out. It seems like the torrents are being monitored, but by who?
uTorrent is a closed source Windows-only client. In other words, it’s for lusers waiting to get fucked over.
Which is kind of inevitable, all you have to do is ask yourself the simple question: why does uTorrent exist? Why is so much time and effort being invested in a free but closed Windows only piece of p2p software?
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So I’m kinda a middle-thing between fourteen year old girl (even though I’m male) and a real pirate I guess.[/quote]
oh,gosh…a underaged-she-male pirate. that’s somehting new,..and it turned me so on…[touching myself]
lol !
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All you have to do is ask yourself the simple question: Where is my tinfoil beanie?[/quote]
On your pointy head, idiot.
Limewire was the one I initially fell in love with, but ultimately got married to utorrent.. :)
This blog has useful articles quite often, but I can say with confidence that this isn’t one of them.
Broad conclusions are made, despite the very limited subset: windows users, using PC Pitstop. Then, yo conclude “Based on the amount of traffic that is generated by each P2P application, uTorrent would be the absolute winner.” without any evidence, even faulty evidence. While I don’t doubt that uTorrent users probably cause more traffic, don’t pretend that your assumptions are worth anything.
P.S. Azureus is more likely to be used by advanced users looking for tweaks, who are unlikely to be running PC Pitstop (IMO)
P.P.S. Azureus is cross-platform, which will increase share more.
Azureus owns all u bitches.
Well, most private torrent sites recommend µtorrent, that could be a reason for its popularity. But then, its a small and fast little program which is also one of the reasons…
Small thing - You might want to re-do the graphs, they say “Austalia” instead of “Australia”
[quote comment="361011"]Azureus owns all u bitches.[/quote]
Damn Right!
#1: Couldn’t agree more, I’d push that to everyone, really. Before torrents , I was a gnutellafag. My 18 year old girlfriend was using limewire up until she moved in with me. I got her straight onto my overseas seeder box + all the music trackers.
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