The Pulse of Rent A Coder

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The Pulse of Rent a coder
(taken on 10/7/2008 7:41:19 AM)
2 Rent A Coder is a global marketplace that connects buyers of services (such as programing, design, marketing and translations) with sellers. It is the home of the world's largest number of completed software projects and is currently made up of 106,038 buyers and 228,606 coders. These participants come from virtually every country in the world, and negotiate and complete thousands of projects each month.

2 Rent A Coder statistics provide an instantaneous pulse reading on global trends in domestic and global outsourcing, offshoring and nearshoring. It has been the subject of numerous studies by leading educational instutitutions, including Harvard University, American University, University of Massachusetts and numerous others. (If you are a public research institution and have a project you'd like to propose, please contact us.)

How many projects are completed each month on 2 Rent A Coder?
What percentage of 2 Rent A Coder buyers are repeat customers?
Which countries are the biggest buyers and coders on the site?
How does 2 Rent A Coder rank compared to other sites on the Internet?

How many projects are succesfully completed each month on 2 Rent A Coder?

8075

Sep
2006

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Sep
2008

Average Monthly Growth Rate: 1.28%
Average Yearly Growth Rate: 15.36%

Show numeric data

Date	# of 100% completed projects
Sep 2008	8,075
Aug 2008	7,644
Jul 2008	7,762
Jun 2008	7,366
May 2008	7,657
Apr 2008	7,810
Mar 2008	7,682
Feb 2008	7,179
Jan 2008	7,240
Dec 2007	6,674
Nov 2007	7,427
Oct 2007	7,736
Sep 2007	7,091
Aug 2007	7,747
Jul 2007	7,494
Jun 2007	7,294
May 2007	7,619
Apr 2007	7,234
Mar 2007	7,450
Feb 2007	6,584
Jan 2007	6,376
Dec 2006	6,117
Nov 2006	6,816
Oct 2006	6,530
Sep 2006	6,418

What percentage of 2 Rent A Coder buyers are repeat customers?

Percentage of all projects last month
(09/2008)

95.58

4.42 %

95.58 %

First-time
buyers

Repeat
buyers

According to a study by KPMG, the average software industry business has a 64% repeat buyer rate.

Which countries are the biggest buyers and coders on the site?

Top 10 Buyer Countries last month
09/2008

Top 10 Coder Countries last month
09/2008

How does 2 Rent A Coder rank compared to other sites on the Internet?

Alexa is a site ranking service owned by Amazon. It ranks 2 Rent A Coder among the top 3,000 most popular sites on the entire Internet.
2 Rent A Coder is proud to have made the prestigous Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies in the United States. It is ranked the 82nd fastest growing software company in the nation, the 3rd fastest growing company in the Tampa Bay area (out of all types of companies).