IRC Statistics

NEW STATS: #IRC server software in use on the Internet (based on 4991 publicly accessible servers): #UnrealIRCd 37%, #InspIRCd 22%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 7%, Ergo 7% (+2% compared to last year). See details at ircstats.org

NEW STATS: #IRC Server software in use on the Internet (based on 5250+ publicly accessible servers): #UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 22%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 7%, Ergo 5%. See details at ircstats.org.

NEW STATS: #IRC Server software in use on the Internet (based on 5500+ publicly accessible servers): #UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 21%, ngircd 9%, Hybrid 8%. Ergo grows to 3.5%. See details at ircstats.org/.

Sadie Powell pointed out a flaw in the services counts. On 5 of 1385 #IRC networks the services package was incorrectly identified as "IRCServices". For network counts the change is tiny, but has quite an effect on user counts. All data 2016-now corrected: ircstats.org/services

Many IRC networks use a "Services package". Anope is used on 68% of the servers (serving 112k users), atheme on 16% (serving 72k users). The number of IRC networks declined a bit, but the number of users on networks with anope or atheme services is almost the same as a year ago.

NEW STATS: #IRC Server software in use on the Internet (based on 6000+ publicy accessible servers): #UnrealIRCd 38%, #InspIRCd 21%, Hybrid 9%, ngircd 9%. See details on ircstats.org/. No changes at the top compared to a year ago. Ergo grows from 118 to 164 servers.

Oragono changed its name to Ergo with the release of v2.7.0 in 2021. The statistics for both can be found under the new name. Ergo & Oragono were found on 118 IRC Servers on the Internet.

Many IRC networks use a "Services package". Anope is used on 69% of IRC networks, atheme on 16%. The number of IRC users that are served by these services packages changed a lot: Dec 2020: 119k anope, 104k atheme Dec 2021: 112k anope, 72k atheme ircstats.org/services

NEW STATS: #IRC Server software in use on the Internet (based on 6500+ publicly accessible servers): #UnrealIRCd 39%, #InspIRCd 21%, Hybrid 9%, ngircd 9%. See details on ircstats.org/. Compared to a year ago, InspIRCd gains 2%. The rest in the top-4 remain stable.

In the cipher stats we see AES-256 slowly being replaced replaced by #CHACHA20, which rises from 0% to 23% in 3 years. Forward secrecy also rises steadily and is now at 87%. All #IRC #TLS statistics can be found at ircstats.org/server-features…

In the Dec 2020 scan a lot more valid #SSL / #TLS certificates were encountered on #IRC servers. Of all IRC servers offering SSL/TLS, a valid certificate was present in 37% of the cases. Still not great, but quite a bump from 25% in 2019. ircstats.org/server-features…

Dec 2020: 51% of the #IRC servers on the Internet offer #SSL / #TLS on port 6697. ircstats.org/server-features… That's 10% more than a year ago. BUT... this is mainly because the scan this year also includes servers that listen ONLY on 6697 (and not also on 6667), which is also ~10%.

New Dec 2020 scan results. #IRC Server software in use on the Internet: #UnrealIRCd 39%, #InspIRCd 20%, Hybrid 10%, ngircd 9%. See details on ircstats.org/servers. Compared to a year ago, InspIRCd gains 1% and UnrealIRCd loses 2.7%.

#IRCv3 CAP statistics from the user's point of view: * 64% of the users are on a server that has CAP support * 37% of the users are on a server that supports SASL #IRC

New #IRC Statistics from the user's point of view: * 98k users connected to an #UnrealIRCd server (24%) * 84k users connected to an #InspIRCd server (20%) * 82k users connected to a Seven server (20%)

New Dec 2019 scan results. #IRC Software in use on the Internet: #UnrealIRCd 42%, #InspIRCd 19%, Hybrid 11%, ngircd 8%. See details on ircstats.org/servers. Compared to a year ago, UnrealIRCd loses 0.9% and InspIRCd gains 1.5%.

(Requested) #IRC Statistics: when filtering on servers with 500+ local users the picture changes completely. The top-3 IRC server software is a lot closer together with #UnrealIRCd at 19%, Hybrid 17% and #InspIRCd 14%. "Seven" becomes 4th with 12%.

(Requested) #IRC Statistics: when filtering on servers with 50+ local users, we get a slightly slightly different picture of the IRC Server software in use: #UnrealIRCd 45%, #InspIRCd 20%, Hybrid 8%. ngIRC disappears completely, making Charybdis 4th with 5,5%.