I go to Kens web page for the links a several times a month on average and I
might be average too (not the povray links), so just going by that alone with
perhaps 15,000 accesses a year divide 15000 by 5 first = 3000 people.
Maybe the povray downloads is best to judge the number of people by but still
you'd want to divide that number by the average time a single person gets a file
(the povray distributions I take it, if not then various FTP d/l's need to be
subtracted out. Let's say that would be 1/25 of the 2.5 million d/l's just to
wild guess for actual POV-Ray only).  I'll conclude then that it's 1 million POV
d/l's per month, and over a longer period of time that would mean there might be
a few repeat d/l's to get updated versions.  Subtract out the multiple platform
users and it might cut this in half, then take away some errant re-d/l's for
whatever reason (bad d/l) and the final number might be 1/4 million people.  But
then maybe double that back just because....
Final total guesstamation: 500,000 POV-Ray users out there, whether they be
one-time users or full-time.
It's okay if you don't believe me though, I don't either.

Bob

"Ken" <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
news:3894C631.BB207664@pacbell.net...
|
|
| Justin Clark wrote:
| >
| > Hi,
| >
| > I was wondering if anyone can give me an approximate idea as to how many
| > povray users there are right now?
| >
| > -Justin
|
| The POV-Team keeps statistics on the traffic at their site but it would
| be almost impossible using those statistics to determine the size of
| their user base. It might give you some insight however looking at
| the stats below for the month of Nov. 1999. My personal home page,
| dedicated to POV-Ray, has had 12,000+ visitors since it went online
| in April of last year. I would guess that there is a fairly large
| POV-User base but I would not care to guess at how many.
|
|
| The statistics for the POV-Ray home page at - http://www.povray.org
|
| Daily Averages for the month of November 1999
|
| Total Hits                 97,428
| Files Downloaded           85,479
| Pages Accessed             40,219
|
| Monthly Totals for the month of November 1999
|
| Total Hits              2,922,863
| Files Downloaded        2,565,378
| Pages Accessed          1,206,595
| Bandwidth in KBytes    74,387,415
|
| --
| Ken Tyler -  1300+ Povray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
| http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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