And this is the new feature I just mentioned in the update. I’ve wanted to set up some log analysis for a year to see which routers were popular and how many images were being downloaded, but didn’t have the time. This weekend was rainy and I had a some mental energy and time, so I got it done. This analysis is automated, so I plan to post these up monthly, though there might not always be time to do it on the first of the month.
Some words on methodology – these are all based on my apache logs. This first report only covers from December 9 to the end of the month, because those were all I still had in my log rotation. My scripts are now grabbing the logs daily at the end of the day, and processing that one day immediately. Identifying info is not getting kept long term, that was a priorty for me – as soon as I process the raw log, I’m saving the first digits of a hash of the downloading IP address only. That’s enough to tell different downloaders apart, but can’t be reversed to an actual single address even by brute force methods thanks to only keeping part of the hash.
A few quirks this month. For one, you’ll see a couple of images noted under “unknown” build systems, that’s because one of the new systems wasn’t spitting out its proper “-ABxx” file tag on the initial test run. You’ll also see that there are only a handful of routers listed with zero downloads, but some of those are because the script also checks against routers available when the script is run (since routers that aren’t downloaded don’t show up in the log either, and I can’t check to see what files were available a month ago). So if a router is released on 1/1 and you run the report for December, that router will show up on this list as a December router with no downloads. Not a big deal, but it’s a thing.
The other one is that there are more routers with no real downloads than indicated. A handful of folks do full scrapes of the site every month (which is fine by me), so you see “false” downloads associated with those scrapes. I saw three full scrapes in the logs in this report period, and one partial. It’s easy to get an idea by looking at the list of top user hashes, when you see someone has 400+ downloads that’s an obvious candidate. So, a router that shows only 3 downloads has good odds of not being used by anyone that month.
Without further ado,
The results:
Autobuild report for 2023-12
Compiled Mon 08 Jan 2024 03:51:02 PM UTC
Includes downloads from 2023-12-09 to 2023-12-31
Total router system downloads: 2673 by 576 unique users.
Top performing routers:
65 Mikrotik-RBM33G
61 ZBT-WG1608
56 ZBT-Z8102AX
55 Huasifei-WS1208
53 DualQ-H721
44 ZBT-WG1602
37 x86-64
33 Alwaylink-MK01K21
32 Beeline-SmartBox_TurboPlus
30 TP-Link-MR3020v3
29 Huasifei-WS1208V2
28 ZBT-WG1608-32M
28 RaspberryPi-4-SD
27 Arcadyan-AW1000
26 ZBT-WG1608-16
Downloads by build system:
5 AB18
3 AB_1800
655 AB19
1321 AB21
488 AB22
106 AB23
34 ABGL
57 ABSM
4 unknown
Routers with no downloads:
Banana-Pi4
GL-iNet-AX1800
GL-iNet-AXT1800
GliNet_MT3000
RaspberryPi-5-SD
RaspberryPi-5-USB
Lowest performing routers with downloads:
5 Huasifei-WS1698AX
5 DualQ-H721AX
5 Asus-RT-AC56U
4 Netgear-R8000
4 Linksys-EA9500v1
4 Huastlink-HC841
4 GliNet_X3000
3 WiFiX-NEXQ6GO
3 TP-Link-WR902ACv1
3 TP-Link-Archer-C6-V2
3 Mikrotik-LHG-HB
3 Mikrotik-LHG-2nD
3 Linksys-EA8300
3 Huasifei-WS1208V2-32
3 Dlink-DIR-853-R1
Highest individual downloaders (hashed):
493 09a87510be6e
488 6a199cc49538
484 bb46aef0d4b2
377 0d58b5d9c89b
16 151a3d90824e
12 a6396bc71c58
11 4b4e08145894
10 db803b2880f2
8 a9f7c6baf2b0
8 44559ae5f771
Downloads by router name:
11 Alfa-R36A
8 Alfa-R36M-E4G
8 Alfa-TUBE-E4G
8 ALIX-2D13
33 Alwaylink-MK01K21
10 APU2C4
27 Arcadyan-AW1000
9 Archer-A7-V5
8 Archer-C20-V1
9 Archer-C2600
8 Archer-C2-V1
8 Archer-C5-V1
17 Archer-C6Uv1
13 Archer-C7-V2
9 Archer-C7-V4
18 Archer-C7-V5
10 Asus-RT-AC51U
5 Asus-RT-AC56U
13 Asus-RT-AC58U
8 Asus-RT-AC65P
16 Asus-RT-AC68U
8 Asus-RT-AC85P
10 Asus-RT-AC87U
10 Asus-RT-AX53U
8 Asus-RT-N14U
10 Asus-RT-N16
9 Asus-RT-N56U
13 Asus-RT-N66U
12 BananaPi-BPi-R3
16 Beeline-SmartBox_Pro
16 Beeline-SmartBox_TurboModPlus
32 Beeline-SmartBox_TurboPlus
8 BT-HomeHub-5
8 CheckPoint-L-50
10 Comfast-CF-E3
11 Comfast-CF-E5
8 Compex-WPJ428
9 Cudy-WR1300
9 DIR505A1
7 D-Link-DGL-5500-A1
8 D-Link-DIR-825-C1
7 D-Link-DIR-835-A1
11 Dlink-DIR853-R1
3 Dlink-DIR-853-R1
7 D-Link-DIR-860L-B1
10 D-Link-DIR-882-A1
8 D-Link-DIR-882-R1
12 DualQ-H721-1907
12 DualQ-H721-2102
11 DualQ-H721-2203
53 DualQ-H721
5 DualQ-H721AX
7 Dynalink-DL-WRX36
7 GL-AP1300
7 GL-AR150
7 GL-AR300M-16
7 GL-AR300M-Lite
7 GL-AR300M-nand
10 GL-AR750
8 GL-B1300
17 GL-E750
8 GLi-AR750S
8 Gl.iNet-GL6416
19 Gl.iNet-MT1300
15 Gl.iNet-MV1000
4 GliNet_X3000
9 GL-MIFI
8 GL-MT300A
8 GL-MT300N-V1
20 GL-MT300N-V2
7 Globalscale-MOCHAbin
12 GL-S1300
8 GL-X1200
22 GL-X750
9 GL-XE300
18 HiLink-HLK-7621a
8 HiWiFi-HC5962
55 Huasifei-WS1208
12 Huasifei-WS1208V1
29 Huasifei-WS1208V2
3 Huasifei-WS1208V2-32
8 Huasifei-WS1208v2-32
6 Huasifei-WS1218
7 Huasifei-WS1688AX-16
8 Huasifei-WS1688AX-32
5 Huasifei-WS1698AX
10 Huasifei-WS7915AX
4 Huastlink-HC841
9 Huastlink-HC851-HC841
7 Huastlink-HC952
17 Huawei-HG553
8 Huawei-HG556a-A
11 Huawei-HG556a-B
7 Huawei-HG556a-C
7 IRZ-MT00
8 Lenovo-Y1S-V1
9 Lenovo-Y1-V1
7 Linksys-E4200-V2
10 Linksys-E8450
7 Linksys-E8450-UBI
9 Linksys-EA3500
9 Linksys-EA4500-V1
8 Linksys-EA6350v3
8 Linksys-EA7300
7 Linksys-EA7500v1
8 Linksys-EA7500v2
10 Linksys-EA8100v1
3 Linksys-EA8300
7 Linksys-EA8500
4 Linksys-EA9500v1
9 Linksys-MR8300
13 Linksys-WRT1200AC
17 Linksys-WRT1900ACS
19 Linksys-WRT1900AC-V1
16 Linksys-WRT1900AC-V2
17 Linksys-WRT3200ACM
16 Linksys-WRT32x
18 M01K21
6 Mediatek-MT7628-EVB
7 Mercury-MW4530R
3 Mikrotik-LHG-2nD
3 Mikrotik-LHG-HB
6 Mikrotik-RB433AH
7 Mikrotik-RB750GR3
8 Mikrotik-RB760iGS
7 Mikrotik-RB912UAG-2HPnD
9 Mikrotik-RB912UAG-5HPnD
7 Mikrotik-RB922UAGS
6 Mikrotik-RB951Ui-2nD
8 Mikrotik-RBD52U
15 Mikrotik-RBM11G
65 Mikrotik-RBM33G
9 Mikrotik-RBSXTR
9 Mikrotik-RBwAPR-2nD
10 Mofi-4500
8 MYNET-N600
9 MYNET-N750
8 NanoPi-NEO-Plus2
9 NanoPi-R2S
14 NanoPi-R4S
8 Netgear-R6220
7 Netgear-R6300-V2
10 Netgear-R7000
8 Netgear-R7500-V1
8 Netgear-R7500-V2
10 Netgear-R7800
4 Netgear-R8000
9 Netgear-WNDR3700-V1
7 Netgear-WNDR3700-V2
7 Netgear-WNDR3700-V4
7 Netgear-WNDR3800
18 Netgear-WNDR4300v1
19 Newifi-D2
8 Nexx-WT3020-16
8 Nexx-WT3020-8
7 O2-Box-6431
9 OrangePi-PC
10 OrangePi-Plus
8 OrangePi-Zero-Plus
8 P2W-R619AC
22 RaspberryPi-1
17 RaspberryPi-2
21 RaspberryPi-3-SD
16 RaspberryPi-3-USB
28 RaspberryPi-4-SD
23 RaspberryPi-4-USB
22 RaspberryPi-CM4-SD
17 RaspberryPi-CM4-USB
9 SamKnows-WhiteBox-V8
8 Sanlinking-D240
7 Seagate-Dockstar
23 SmartBox_Giga
20 SmartBox_ModGiga
8 TP-Link-Archer-C59v1
7 TP-Link-Archer-C59v2
3 TP-Link-Archer-C6-V2
7 TP-Link-Archer-C7v1
5 TP-Link-Archer-WR1045ND
30 TP-Link-MR3020v3
14 TP-Link-MR3420v5
10 TP-Link-WDR3500
9 TP-Link-WDR3600
8 TP-Link-WDR4300
8 TP-Link-WDR4310
7 TP-Link-WDR4900
10 TP-Link-WR1043NDv2
8 TP-Link-WR1043NDv3
10 TP-Link-WR1043ND-V4
8 TP-Link-WR1043N-V5
5 TP-Link-WR703N-16meg
10 TP-Link-WR842-V3
3 TP-Link-WR902ACv1
9 TP-Link-WR902ACv3
14 TP-Link-WR942N
20 Turris-Omnia
7 Turris-Omnia-2102
7 Turris-Omnia-2305
9 UniElec-U7621-01
7 UniElec-U7621-06
7 UniElec-U7628-01
3 WiFiX-NEXQ6GO
21 WS1688AX
11 WS1688AX-32
37 x86-64
22 x86-Generic
14 x86-UEFI-64
21 x86-UEFI-Generic
13 Xiaomi-Mifi3G
10 Xiaomi-Mifi3Pro
20 Xiaomi-Mifi-Mini
9 YouHua-WR1200JS
16 YOUKU-YK1
13 Z2101AX
10 ZBT-WE1026-5G
18 ZBT-WE1326
8 ZBT-WE2802D
22 ZBT-WE826-Q
23 ZBT-WE826T
12 ZBT-WE826-T-32meg
15 ZBT-WE826WD
21 ZBT-WG1602-16
19 ZBT-WG1602-32
11 ZBT-WG1602-32M
8 ZBT-WG1602-32M-2102
44 ZBT-WG1602
26 ZBT-WG1608-16
28 ZBT-WG1608-32M
61 ZBT-WG1608
9 ZBT-WG209
8 ZBT-WG259
23 ZBT-WG3526
8 ZBT-WG827
11 ZBT-WR8305RT
10 ZBT-Z2101AX
13 ZBT-Z2105AX
56 ZBT-Z8102AX
12 ZyXEL-Keenetic-Extra-II
7 ZyXEL-Keenetic-Omni
7 ZyXEL-NBG6817
10 ZyZEL-NR7101