94% of commercial software get less than 100 downloads/week

Downlad.com is one of the most popular software archives. It generates from 10% to 90% of all downloads for each of the software vendors. Popular software products get more downloads from it, niche products less.

We analyzed data for 29,811 software products (all software except games and products for Mac)... and got shocking results:

Category	Products
Business	458
Developer Tools	342
Utilities	202
Home & Education	166
Security	107
Internet	96
Design & Photo	56
IS/IT	35
Audio & Video Software	21
Misc	14
Desktop Enhancements	3
Total:	1,500

Table 1. Number of commercial products that don't get even a single download/week.

Category	Percentage
Developer Tools	10.8%
Business	10.8%
Utilities	7.2%
Internet	6.9%
IS/IT	6.6%
Security	6.4%
Home & Education	5.6%
Design & Photo	3.0%
Desktop Enhancements	2.7%
Misc	2.6%
Audio & Video Software	1.0%
Max:	10.8%

Table 2. Percentage of commercial products that don't get even a single download/week.

Category	Products
Business	3,983
Developer Tools	2,982
Home & Education	2,757
Utilities	2,364
Design & Photo	1,425
Security	1,387
Internet	1,199
Audio & Video Software	1,155
IS/IT	487
Misc	421
Desktop Enhancements	80
Total:	18,240

Table 3. Number of commercial products that get less than 100 downloads/week.

Table 4. Percentage of commercial products that get less than 100 downloads/week.