Homebrew Analytics Prefixes (30 days)
Homebrew Prefixes for Events (30 days)
Period: 2026-10-11 to 2026-11-10, with 25,100,460 reported events.
Source and definitions
Source: Homebrew’s InfluxDB analytics, with notice and an opportunity to opt out before events are sent; JSON and collection details.
Category: Reported prefix, not a unique user or machine.
Events: Reported occurrences grouped by this category.
Unreported events are excluded; counts do not establish unique users or successful formula installations.
| Rank | Prefix | Events | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | /opt/homebrew |
12,988,707 | 51.8% |
| #2 | /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew |
7,562,527 | 30.1% |
| #3 | /usr/local |
3,346,577 | 13.3% |
| #4 | custom-prefix (Macintosh arm64) |
1,073,292 | 4.3% |
| #5 | custom-prefix (Linux x86_64) |
63,798 | 0.3% |
| #6 | custom-prefix (Macintosh x86_64) |
36,464 | 0.2% |
| #7 | custom-prefix (Linux arm64) |
25,632 | 0.1% |
| #8 | custom-prefix (Linux [WSL] x86_64) |
3,411 | 0.0% |
| #9 | custom-prefix (Linux [WSL] arm64) |
48 | 0% |
| #10 | custom-prefix (Huawei arm64) |
4 | 0% |