Saturday, January 20, 2018

Who used apex.oracle.com in 2017?

A number of years ago, I provided statistics on the geographic distribution of people who used the free, evaluation service for Oracle Application Express at https://apex.oracle.com.  I did this in 2008, 2009 and 2011.  It's time for an update.

I've included a graphic of the top 30 and the full report below, and here are my observations:

  • Since 2008, the number of visitor sessions to apex.oracle.com increased 280 times! That's not percentage, but times.  Percentage-wise, that's 27,985 % growth from 2008 to 2017.
  • In 2008, there were 1 or more visitor sessions from 122 countries/territories.  In 2017, that number increased to 212 countries/territories
  • The USA, India and United Kingdom remain in the top 3.  But the UK is barely hanging onto the #3 position.
  • Colombia vaulted from #11 in 2011 to #6 in 2017.  Bangladesh jumped from #26 to #14.  Japan jumped from #19 to #9.  Wow!

Usage of apex.oracle.com doesn't necessarily translate into usage of APEX.  These statistics are only a measurement of who is logging into apex.oracle.com - the actual usage of APEX is far greater.  Also, I fully anticipate the comment "...but as a percentage of population size, our country has the top usage in the world!" (here's looking at you, Netherlands).  But just because someone's country has declined in the rankings doesn't mean that APEX isn't growing there....it's just growing in other countries too!

Lastly, the statistics presented below are sessions, not to be confused with activity.  At the time of this writing, there are 36,133 workspaces on apex.oracle.com.  In the past 7 days, there were 4,643,958 page views, and 1,808 new workspaces requested and approved.

Not only is usage of APEX growing on a global basis, but that growth is accelerating.





3 comments:

Pete M said...

U.A.E. in 13th - wow. Where is this user community?!

Unknown said...

It's good see all the stats. But, we would also like to know country wise total unique users visited apex.oracle.com.This will give better insight about community size and growth.

Renato Nobre said...

Go Brazil!!!! :-)

Have that gor oraclecorp ?

Tks Joel for such a great product! Every year more and more addicted and more apps created inside Oracle:-)