Homebrew Analytics Prefixes (90 days)
Homebrew Prefixes for Events (90 days)
Period: 2026-08-13 to 2026-11-11, with 59,394,662 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 |
31,406,648 | 52.9% |
| #2 | /home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew |
16,274,868 | 27.4% |
| #3 | /usr/local |
8,815,278 | 14.8% |
| #4 | custom-prefix (Macintosh arm64) |
2,621,601 | 4.4% |
| #5 | custom-prefix (Linux x86_64) |
126,317 | 0.2% |
| #6 | custom-prefix (Macintosh x86_64) |
80,017 | 0.1% |
| #7 | custom-prefix (Linux arm64) |
63,115 | 0.1% |
| #8 | custom-prefix (Linux [WSL] x86_64) |
6,687 | 0.0% |
| #9 | custom-prefix (Linux [WSL] arm64) |
98 | 0% |
| #10 | custom-prefix (Linux aarch64) |
22 | 0% |
| #11 | custom-prefix (Linux Intel) |
7 | 0% |
| #12 | custom-prefix (Huawei arm64) |
4 | 0% |