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WinSCP Usage Statistics

This feature is available only in the latest beta release.

Beginning with version WinSCP 5.0.7, WinSCP will include functionality to send to WinSCP team non-personal statistics about usage of WinSCP features. The only potentially personal information sent to WinSCP is IP addresses. Users can disable this functionality in the installer or anytime later in WinSCP preferences.

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WinSCP usage statistics help us improve future versions of WinSCP. Once sent to us, usage statistics are stored for analysis (except IP addresses) and made available to the core WinSCP team only.

Why is it very important?

We work very hard to make WinSCP reliable and useful. We also love improving WinSCP with every release. And last but not least, we provide WinSCP application to You for free and we want this to stay so!

However our resources and time are unfortunately very limited. We want to focus our effort on improving the right features for You. That is why we need to learn more about how You use WinSCP. Understanding user experience is very important for us, it means, Your experience using WinSCP is important too!

Please allow to send us your usage statistics data!

What usage information is collected and sent to us?

WinSCP collects and sends following static information about your system, counters and metrics.

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You can review the information collected and ready for sending on Updates tab of Preferences dialog.

Collected information is stored in Configuration/Usage section in the configuration storage.

Static information about your system and WinSCP installation

Name Description
WindowsVersion Version of Windows operating system.
WindowsProductName Windows product name (e.g. “Windows 7 Home Premium”).
DefaultLocale Default locale of your Windows installation (e.g. “0409” for English - United States).
Installed Time your version of WinSCP was installed (run for the first time).
InProgramFiles Is WinSCP installed in default Program Files folder?
Locale Locale (translation) of WinSCP.
FirstUse Time of first WinSCP use (of any version).
FirstVersion First version of WinSCP used.
CurrentVersion Current version of WinSCP.
AnyBetaUsed Ever used a beta version of WinSCP?
UpdateLastReport Time since the last reset of period counters.

Information about your WinSCP configuration

Name Description
StoredSessionsCountSCP Number of stored sessions using SCP protocol.
StoredSessionsCountSFTP Number of stored sessions using SFTP protocol.
StoredSessionsCountFTP Number of stored sessions using FTP protocol.
StoredSessionsCountFTPS Number of stored sessions using FTPS protocol.
StoredSessionsCountPassword Number of stored sessions with stored password.
UsingStoredSessionsFolders Any stored session folder used?
Interface Interface used.
CopyParamsCount Number of user defined transfer settings presets.
CustomCommandsCount Number of user defined custom commands.
UsingLocationProfiles Using location profiles bookmark mode?
ExternalEditors List of configured external editors (e.g. “notepad,editplus”).

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Counters of your use of WinSCP

Each of the following counters have two instances:

  • Lifetime, counting since the collection of usage statistics was enabled, with Lifetime prefix;
  • Period, counting since the last time usage statistics were sent to us (see also UpdateLastReport), with Period prefix.
Name Description
Runs WinSCP runs.
Upgrades WinSCP upgrades (runs, where previously run WinSCP version was older).
Downgrades WinSCP downgrades (runs, where previously run WinSCP version was higher).
UploadsCommand Uploads using menu of keyboard.
DownloadsCommand Downloads using menu of keyboard.
UploadsDragDropInternal Uploads using drag&drop within application.
UploadsDragDropExternal Uploads using drag&drop from another application.
TransfersOnBackground Transfers on background (in transfer queue).
FileMaskUses Transfers and synchronizations that made use of file mask.
UploadedFiles Uploaded files (excluding background transfers).
DownloadedFiles Downloaded files (excluding background transfers).
DownloadsDragDropInternal Downloads using drag&drop within application.
DownloadsDragDropExternalExt Downloads using drag&drop to Windows Explorer using Drag&drop shell extension.
DownloadsDragDropExternalTemp Downloads using drag&drop to another application using temporary folder.
OpenedSessionsSCP Opened sessions using SCP protocol.
OpenedSessionsSFTP Opened sessions using SFTP protocol.
OpenedSessionsFTP Opened sessions using FTP protocol.
OpenedSessionsFTPS Opened sessions using FTPS protocol.
OpenedSessionsPrivateKey Opened sessions authenticated using private key.
RemoteFilesExecuted Remote files opened in an associated application.
RemoteFilesOpenedInInternalEditor Remote files opened in an internal editor.
RemoteFilesOpenedInExternalEditor Remote files opened in an external editor.
LocalFilesExecuted Local files opened in an associated application.
LocalFilesOpenedInInternalEditor Local files opened in an internal editor.
LocalFilesOpenedInExternalEditor Local files opened in an external editor.
FilesSaved Files edited/opened and saved.
FileSaves File saves.
Synchronizations Synchronization runs.
KeepUpToDates Keep remote directory up to date runs.
RemoteCommandExecutions Executions of remote command.
LocalCustomCommandRuns Runs of local custom commands.
RemoteCustomCommandRuns Runs of remote custom commands.
CopyParamAutoSelects Automatic selections of transfer setting preset.
SpaceAvailableChecks Checks for space available on remote server.
SynchronizeBrowsingEnabled Starts of synchronized browsing.
FileFinds Find file runs.
OpenInPutty Open in PuTTY uses.
ChecksumCalculated Checksum calculation runs.
RemoteLinksCreated Remote links created.
KeyboardSelections Files selected using keyboard.
MouseSelections Files selected using mouse.
InterfaceChanges Interface changes.
MaxQueueLength Maximal number of transfers in transfer queue.
MaxBookmarks Maximal number of bookmarks in any bookmark set.

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