piwheels stats 2020Q2
Posted by Ben NuttallIn the period of April – June 2020, 3,631,509 packages were downloaded from piwheels, bringing the total to 21,694,480. This has saved 71 years in the period, and 303 years in total! We also started logging searches, regardless of whether the search resulted in a download, which gives us more insight into which packages are requested, and which distro versions and Python versions are being used. There were 32,033,978 searches in the period.
Each month had around 1.1 million downloads and 10 million searches!
May had the highest number of downloads with 1,271,663, slightly fewer than the peak in March:
Downloads saved around between 21 and 25 years per month:
The top 10 downloads were:
- Flask-Login (130,830)
- PyYAML (94,638)
- Markdown (93,945)
- semantic-version (93,309)
- sentry-sdk (93,164)
- cffi (86,801)
- pycparser (81,878)
- numpy (81,279)
- zope.component (74,446)
- cryptography (57,608)
The top 10 searches were:
- pip (2,583,198)
- setuptools (896,893)
- wheel (759,387)
- requests (541,003)
- youtube-dl (502,525)
- certifi (494,112)
- urllib3 (476,375)
- six (431,755)
- idna (362,577)
- pytz (350,693)
The following data is usually compiled from downloads, but it’s more accurate to use searches, so I’ll be using searches from now on.
Linux makes up 99.7% of all searches so I’ve discounted the rest. Raspbian still dominates usage with over 95%, although in June, Raspberry Pi renamed their own distribution, and it now identifies as “Debian”, so from next quarter on, I’ll group Debian and Raspbian together. Debian usage is obviously rising as more people use the latest image, and Ubuntu remains in third place with under 2%.
armv7l (Pi 2/3/4 platform) is still a majority architecture with 92% of searches from Arm devices, with armv6l (Pi 1/Zero) taking under 7%. Raspberry Pi recently released a beta of a 64-bit version of the official OS, so that’s bound to grow in usage from now on. It’s currently at almost 1%, and those users are currently not served by piwheels as we don’t build aarch64 platform wheels.
For the first time we’re able to see the true Python 2 usage stats, since previously reported usage was heavily skewed to Python 3 due to being based on downloads. Luckily, Python 3 has a reasonable majority, and 3.7 (the version provided by the current stable distro) has the highest share with 51%. Python 2.7 comes second with 35%, followed by 3.5 (from oldstable), 3.8 and 3.6. Fortunately, Python 3.4 (in Jessie, now EOL) has an insignificant usage, but it’s a shame there’s still so much Python 2 usage.
We’re now also logging pip and setuptools versions:
Note that 18.1 is pre-installed in Buster, and 9.0.1 is pre-installed in Stretch. 20.1.1 is a recently released version, so likely the most common for people who update their pip.
Similarly, setuptools 40.8.0 is what’s pre-installed in Buster, but the version of pip in Stretch doesn’t send the setuptools version (33.1.1) in the user agent like it does in newer versions.