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kovidgoyal · 01-17-2013, 11:45 PM

Here are some more data points about calibre's popularity:

Number of unique IP addresses that have used the calibre Fetch News feature:
13 million
http://status.calibre-ebook.com/recipe_stats

Current calibre-ebook.com website ranking: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/calibre-ebook.com
Top 5000 of *all* websites in the US and top 7000 in the world. And this is with a website that employs no traffic generation tricks, SEO, advertising, whatever.

According to google analytics, there were 2 million unique visitors to calibre-ebook.com in the last week. Of which 60% were new visitors and 40% were returning visitors. Unfortunately, I can't create a public link for this, so you will have to take my word for it.

Assume that 40% returning visitors implies at least 30% active users. That would put calibre's active user number somewhere between 4 and 6 million active users (from a total of 13.7 million).

I doubt very much that there are 4 *million* computer geeks/nerds in the world that are also avid e-book readers.

01-17-2013, 11:45 PM	#44
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,856 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Here are some more data points about calibre's popularity: Number of unique IP addresses that have used the calibre Fetch News feature: 13 million http://status.calibre-ebook.com/recipe_stats Current calibre-ebook.com website ranking: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/calibre-ebook.com Top 5000 of all websites in the US and top 7000 in the world. And this is with a website that employs no traffic generation tricks, SEO, advertising, whatever. According to google analytics, there were 2 million unique visitors to calibre-ebook.com in the last week. Of which 60% were new visitors and 40% were returning visitors. Unfortunately, I can't create a public link for this, so you will have to take my word for it. Assume that 40% returning visitors implies at least 30% active users. That would put calibre's active user number somewhere between 4 and 6 million active users (from a total of 13.7 million). I doubt very much that there are 4 million computer geeks/nerds in the world that are also avid e-book readers. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 01-17-2013 at 11:49 PM.