{"id":10087,"date":"2017-05-30T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=10087"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:04:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:04:42","slug":"curl-survey-2017-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/curl-survey-2017-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"curl survey 2017 &#8211; analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in. The <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2017\/05\/11\/the-curl-user-survey-2017\/\">curl user survey 2017<\/a> was up for a little over two weeks and attracted answers from a total of 513 individuals. This was a much better turnout that last year&#8217;s disappointment &#8211; thank you everyone!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/media\/curl%20user%20poll%202017%20analysis.pdf\">The 2017 survey analysis as a 40 page PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year we learned that the distribution curve for the amount of protocols people use curl for looks like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/number-of-protocols.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10088\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/number-of-protocols-1200x675.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/number-of-protocols-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/number-of-protocols-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/number-of-protocols-450x253.png 450w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/number-of-protocols-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/number-of-protocols.png 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the interest in getting even more protocols supported is still high, if not even very high and I think the top-most requested protocol is a bit surprising:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10090\" src=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new-protocols.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1061\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new-protocols.png 1061w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new-protocols-200x113.png 200w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new-protocols-450x253.png 450w, https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/new-protocols-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1061px) 100vw, 1061px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The outcome of the survey is <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/media\/curl%20user%20poll%202017%20analysis.pdf\">the analysis document<\/a> in which I&#8217;ve summarized by thoughts and added a bunch of graphs and other diagrams that illustrate the numbers. In particular compared to previous&#8217; years results. It became a 40 page thing as I&#8217;ve tried to be detailed and also somewhat elaborate on commenting and reacting to a lot of the write-in suggestions and comments!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to draw your own conclusions or just verify mine, I also offer you the following source material:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The pristine <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/media\/curl%20and%20libcurl%202017.csv\">2017 CSV file<\/a> as downloaded from Google, with all the results from the survey.<\/li>\n<li>To compare with last year, I also offer you the <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/media\/curl%20and%20libcurl%202016.csv\">2016 CSV file<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>During my the work of producing the analysis document, I imported the 2017 CSV file into libreoffice and fiddled with a lot of numbers and graphs, most of that didn&#8217;t end up in the document but you can find the raw <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/media\/curl-survey-analysis-2017.ods\">2017 survey libreoffice calc file<\/a> and verify the outcomes or the formulas used.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results are in. The curl user survey 2017 was up for a little over two weeks and attracted answers from a total of 513 individuals. This was a much better turnout that last year&#8217;s disappointment &#8211; thank you everyone! The 2017 survey analysis as a 40 page PDF This year we learned that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2017\/05\/30\/curl-survey-2017-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">curl survey 2017 &#8211; analysis<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,386],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curl","tag-curl-and-libcurl","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10095,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions\/10095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}