ubuntu DE usage

Over at Ubuntu Vibes, there's a post with some interesting stats on Ubuntu desktop environment usage, compiled from Ubuntu Popularity Contest stats. Here's a link:

http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2012/08/ubuntu-desktop-environment-usage.html

The stats don't tell the whole story. For one thing, as the post's author notes:

Not all Ubuntu users have popularity-contest enabled. It's disabled by default and most Ubuntu users have likely never heard of it. So this will not show a true picture of DE usage on Ubuntu. Also the results may not be 100% accurate.

The author also mentions other factors that should be considered when looking at the data; read the entire article, and also check out the comments that follow.

In any case, here's the table that appears at that web page:

DE	Package Name	Total Users	Recent Users (used in last 30 days)
Classic Gnome	gnome-panel	1527309 (59.96%)	62875 (28.24%)
Unity	unity	397130 (15.59%)	71106 (31.94%)
KDE	kdesktop	237579 (9.32%)	50369 (22.62%)
XFCE	xfce4-panel	238688 (9.37%)	10165 (4.56%)
Gnome Shell	gnome-shell	106107 (4.16%)	24626 (11.06%)
LXDE	lxde-common	29589 (1.16%)	1375 (0.61%)
E17	e17	10696 (0.41%)	2076 (0.93%)

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it doesn't show usage for Openbox, which is a window manager that I often use in Ubuntu.