Mistake.  2.5 million divided by 25 is 100,000 not 1 million.  Continuing on
from there ends up at 50,000 people.  Much more believable I think, even if it
was about as haphazard a statistical analysis as it gets.

Bob

"Bob Hughes" <omn### [at] hotmailcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
news:3894e633@news.povray.org...
| 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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