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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.

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?
What usage information is collected and sent to us?
Further reading

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.

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”).

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`	Number of WinSCP runs.
`Upgrades`	Number of WinSCP upgrades (runs, where previously run WinSCP version was older).
`Downgrades`	Number of WinSCP downgrades (runs, where previously run WinSCP version was higher).
`UploadsCommand`	Number of uploads using menu or keyboard.
`DownloadsCommand`	Number of downloads using menu or keyboard.
`UploadsDragDropInternal`	Number of uploads using drag&drop within application.
`UploadsDragDropExternal`	Number of uploads using drag&drop from another application.
`TransfersOnBackground`	Number of transfers on background (in transfer queue).
`FileMaskUses`	Number of transfers and synchronizations that made use of file mask.
`UploadedFiles`	Number of uploaded files (excluding background transfers).
`DownloadedFiles`	Number of 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.