Modeling: Home Star Loader

Last week I reported that there are now 70 committers / contributors in Modeling.

Today, Denis announced on the Phoenix mailing list that EMF, EMFT, MDT and GMF are in the top 30 requested home pages for Feb 2009.

The top three popular project pages were, in order: PDT, EMFT, and WTP.

However, if you combine the numbers for the four Modeling subprojects, you get 162K hits for the month, placing Modeling in the #4 slot behind only the Eclipse.org home page, Downloads page, and Categories page, and making us the #1 (aggregate) project page.

Modeling: From Zero to Seventy

Remember when no one had heard of EMF? When it was just Ed Merks, Frank Budinsky, and Dave Steinberg? Me neither.

These days modeling is everywhere, and with good reason. There are now a total of 70 people contributing to and committing for the various Modeling projects, the most recent additions being from MDT (Papyrus, BPMN2), EMF (CDO), and TMF (Xtext).

So, is it any surprise that there are 29 Modeling Track talks this year at EclipseCon, from the introductory Mega Modeling Mania BoF to the double-black-diamond GMF and QVT: roads (finally) crossed?

And that's not even including a couple of e4 talks about The Modeled UI in Eclipse e4 and The e4 Programming Model Across Web and Desktop or one about Designing an Android Domain Specific Modeling Language using EMF, GEF and GMF!

I guess some people are just unbearably stupid, eh?

50,000 Zips

Since turning on Google Analytics for tracking Modeling project zips on September 15, we've gotten over 50,000 pageviews (33,000 unique) of the download tracker. While this doesn't necessarily mean every one of those hits resulted in a download, it certainly shows a lot of interest in downloading EMF, UML2, UML2 Tools, GMF, Query, OCL, and XSD, to name but a few of the more than two dozen Modeling Project components.

Unfortunately, this only scratches the surface -- most of our downloads come from EPP bundles and update sites. But thanks to bug 239668, we will one day be able to track downloads done via p2. If download stats interest you, please vote for bug 239668.

Where in the world is Modeling Sandiego?

A couple days ago, I pointed out some stats about Popular Eclipse Projects.

Today, let's look at some more detailed stats about the Modeling Project itself, thanks to Google Analytics, which has been installed at on www.eclipse.org since July 19, 2008.

In just under two months since we turned on stat tracking, we've gotten over 90,000 Visits & 300,000 Pageviews from over 40,000 Visitors hailing from over 150 Countries!

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Not included in the screenshots above are some interesting stats about user agents -- what people are using to visit the Modeling Project's site. As you'd probably expect, it's mostly Firefox, IE, and Opera. But would you believe five Playstation hits? Would you believe a Nokia N80, two SonyEricsson phones, but no shoe phones? How about over 1000 hits from Google Chrome users? (I'm so jealous there's no Chrome for Linux yet!) Here's the complete list:

Rank   User-Agent   Hits   (%)
1.  Firefox  56,037  (59.17%)
2.  Internet Explr 30,649  (32.36%)
3.  Opera  2,745  (2.90%)  
4.  Safari  2,297  (2.43%)  
5.  Mozilla  1,373  (1.45%)  
6.  Chrome  1,174 (1.24%)  Already in the #6 spot!
7.  Konqueror 319  (0.34%)  
8.  SeaMonkey 29  (0.03%)  
9.  (not set) 18  (0.02%)  
10.  Mozilla Compatible Agent 12  (0.01%)  
11.  Netscape 12  (0.01%)
12.  Camino  8  (0.01%)
13.  Galeon  8  (0.01%)
14.  Playstation 3 4
15.  Googlebot 2
16.  MyBrowser; MyWindows 2
17.  NetFront 2
18.  SmallProxy 3.4.1 Free 2
19.  Axis2 1
20.  DoCoMo 1
21.  Jakarta Commons-HttpClient 1
22.  MSIE 7.0 1
23.  NETSCAPE FOREVER 1
24.  NokiaN80 1
25.  OpenWave 1
26.  Playstation Portable 1
27.  SonyEricssonW910i 1
28.  X-Browser 1
29.  aaa 1
30.  iexplorer 7.0 WebWasher 3.4 1
31.  openwave 1
32.  preview 1
33.  sonyericssonk750i 1

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Wondering how you can track your eclipse.org site's stats using your own Google Analytics account? Here's how:

  # see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Using_Phoenix#Google_Analytics
  $App->SetGoogleAnalyticsTrackingCode("UA-2345678-9"); # use your UA account