Some stats after 2,5 weeks of JEmu2

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#1

After running the JEmu2 site for 2 weeks, I have some stats to share. Maybe it’s interesting to someone…

  • The homepage of www.gagaplay.com gets an average of about 1000 hits a day.
  • The JEmu2 homepage of JEmu2 (www.gagaplay.com/jemu2) gets an average of about 330 hits a day.
  • about 400 times a day, a game is played. This is logged after successfully having ended an emulator of a game. Starting the JEmu2 frontend doesn’t count, but ending for example the commando emulator 2 times and pacman 1 time, results in 3 games played.
  • about 8 times a day, an error occurs on the client (I log exceptions on the server), which are mostly OpenGL problems. Most of the times (but not always), they are from non-nvidia cards. Occasionally, there’s a problem which points to a java web start bug, which sometimes fails to update the local jnlp file the first time, but that’s about 1 out of 25 errors. This stat doesn’t mean there are not more errors, for example when a driver causes a native VM crash, this is not logged.
  • 2.3% of the visitors use MacOSX, 0.3% use Linux, the rest is Windows.
  • 17% of the logged exceptions come from Linux, the rest from Windows. No exceptions have ben logged from an OSX user yet.

From what I can tell, the number of logged errors coming from Linux seems extremely high (17%) compared to the very low number of visitors using Linux (0.3%).

Please note that I can’t tell anything about the number of unique users. I don’t log the user’s IP number, only the OS, java version, video hw and driver version and only if there’s something wrong. I could maybe scoop that out of the logging from the http server, but I haven’t yet. So maybe there’s only like 5 hardcore addicts :wink:
The numbers coming from client logging on the server might not be correct (for example in case of firewalled machines not allowing JEmu2 to contact the server).

FWIW…

#2

Great stuff Erik. Would you mind if we linked to JEmu2 from Puppygames’ homepage?

Cas :slight_smile:

#3

Very useful info eric, much appreciated.

The line of “who gives a stuff about linux?” is starting to seem more and more logical.

Kev

#4

Please do :slight_smile: (please link to the home page http://www.gagaplay.com)
I’ll be making a links section in my site too, I guess you wouldn’t mind me linking to Puppygames?

Thanks!

#5

You might like to store at least a hash from IP address, to find if majority of bugs are not caused by just a few computers.

#6

That is an idea, but maybe the combination of OS, java version, video hw, and driver version is unique enough for me.

#7

Certainly unique enough for me… except I stash a unique long in Preferences to retrieve for all subsequent runs, which accurately keeps track of an individual installation with only a 2^64 chance of someone else having the same number :slight_smile:

Cas :slight_smile:

#8

Knowing exactly how many installations there are of JEmu2 doesn’t have priority for me right now. I mostly care about how many times an error occurs and what the nature of the errors are, and I care about what games are most popular.

Another thing worth noting is that is 17,5% of the users don’t use IE 6, so checking your website on non-IE browsers seems important, especially on Mozilla FireFox. I always guessed that number of non-IE6 users would be much lower.
Since I’m a shitty web designer, my site site looks like crap on any browser though ;D