Especially since Ubuntu was first released, some people claim that Debians popularity is declining. I doubt so, Debian is as healthy as ever.

Here’s a chart to back my claims:

Alexa traffic rankings

(Ignore mid-april to mid-june, looks like the alexa data was somewhat biased during that time. And this is a “ranking” graph. A lower ranking means more popular, #1 is the most popular website.)

This is the alexa traffic ranking for some popular Linux distribution domains.

Debian is doing just fine, more visitors than ever before. We’re just lacking the release peaks in our graph. :-)