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The usage share of BitTorrent clients is the percentage of users that use a particular BitTorrent client. For example, when it is said that the official BitTorrent client has 12% usage share, it means that some version of BitTorrent client is used by 12% of users.

[edit] 2009

[edit] Delft University of Technology

A study by the Tribler P2P research team at the Delft University of Technology. To generate this data, samples were taken from a number of swarms of users which were then used to identify which BitTorrent client each user was using.

**Global usage share data from: Tribler P2P research team at Delft University of Technology**
Date	uTorrent	Vuze	BitTorrent (mainline)	BitComet	Unknown	Transmission	Other	Sample Size	Source
2009 October	60.16%	14.22%	8.65%	4.43%	7.97%	3.65%	0.92%	17,221	[1]
2009 August	56.81%	18.13%	11.79%	4.71%	4.21%	2.95%	1.40%	> 165,000	[2]
2009 June	55.84%	16.85%	12.01%	6.50%	4.02%	1.60%	3.17%	> 150,000	[3]

[edit] TorrentFreak user survey

An open access poll created on the TorrentFreak.com website. The poll was featured by Vuze in their application which may have skewed the results.

**User survey from: TorrentFreak user survey**
Rank	Application	% of Votes
1	Vuze	66%
2	uTorrent	24%
3	Transmission	3%
4	BitComet	1%
-	BitLord	1%
-	BitTorrent (mainline)	1%
-	Seedbox	1%
-	Other	1%
-	Deluge	1%
-	rTorrent	1%
5	KTorrent	<1%

[edit] 2007

[edit] Digital Music News

Digital Music News collected the data from PC Pitstop, a company that gathers data from computers using their free online virus and malware scanners. The program scans Windows Registry to find which clients have been installed, more than a million Microsoft Windows computers were surveyed.

**Global install rate data from: Digital Music News**
Rank	Application	Install % on Windows desktops
1	LimeWire	18%
2	uTorrent	5.56%
3	BitTorrent (mainline)	2.28%
4	Vuze	2.11%
5	BitComet	1.89%
6	Bitlord	1.27%

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[edit] 2009

[edit] Delft University of Technology

[edit] TorrentFreak user survey

[edit] 2007

[edit] Digital Music News