Caveats: This chart only counts publicly visible mod_dav_svn servers. Private installations, such as those behind corporate firewalls, are not counted. Also, Subversion's other network server, svnserve, is not represented here at all, only because no systematic survey has been made for svnserve. Anecdotal from the Subversion mailing lists and IRC channels indicates that svnserve is about as popular as mod_dav_svn.

In other words, this chart is probably useful for estimating the rate of growth of Subversion's adoption, but not for determining the absolute number of Subversion installations in the world at a given time.

This information is taken from the Security Space Apache Modules Survey. Thanks Security Space!

Date | # Servers
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February 2006 | 23,861
January 2006 | 21,084
December 2005 | 20,278
November 2005 | 18,893
October 2005 | 17,588
September 2005 | 15,233
August 2005 | 13,545
July 2005 | 12,808
June 2005 | 11,534
May 2005 | 9,793
April 2005 | 8,751
March 2005 | 7,897
February 2005 | 6,505
January 2005 | 5,565
December 2004 | 4,995
November 2004 | 4,783
October 2004 | 4,187
September 2004 | 4,174
August 2004 | 3,863
July 2004 | 2,941
June 2004 | 2,502
May 2004 | 2,113
April 2004 | 1,792
March 2004 | 1,424
February 2004 | 1,307
January 2004 | 1,162
December 2003 | 1,009
November 2003 | 969
October 2003 | 782
September 2003 | 665
August 2003 | 522
July 2003 | 448
June 2003 | 369
May 2003 | 308
April 2003 | 250
March 2003 | 222
February 2003 | 158
January 2003 | 70