Homebrew Analytics Prefixes (365 days)
Homebrew Prefixes for Events (365 days)
Period: 2025-11-02 to 2026-11-02, with 274,871,840 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 |
130,956,940 | 47.6% |
| #2 | /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew |
70,485,609 | 25.6% |
| #3 | /usr/local |
55,878,168 | 20.3% |
| #4 | custom-prefix (Macintosh arm64) |
16,355,907 | 6.0% |
| #5 | custom-prefix (Linux x86_64) |
762,697 | 0.3% |
| #6 | custom-prefix (Macintosh x86_64) |
325,690 | 0.1% |
| #7 | custom-prefix (Linux arm64) |
95,793 | 0.0% |
| #8 | custom-prefix (Linux [WSL] x86_64) |
10,846 | 0% |
| #9 | custom-prefix (Linux [WSL] arm64) |
98 | 0% |
| #10 | custom-prefix (Linux loong64) |
51 | 0% |
| #11 | custom-prefix (Linux aarch64) |
22 | 0% |
| #12 | custom-prefix (Linux Intel) |
7 | 0% |
| #13 | custom-prefix (Huawei arm64) |
4 | 0% |
| #14 | custom-prefix (darwin arm64) |
3 | 0% |
| #15 | custom-prefix (123 arm64) |
2 | 0% |
| #16 | custom-prefix (Linux armv7l) |
2 | 0% |
| #17 | custom-prefix (linux x86_64) |
1 | 0% |