AutoHotkey User Survey May 19, 2016 Joe Glines @ the-automator.com Connect with me on LinkedIn Jackie Sztuk @ JSZapp.com

Global study with 408 Completes 58 countries represented! Nearly ½ in United States

How First Heard about AutoHotkey Half of people find AutoHotkey from performing Internet Search How did you first hear about AutoHotkey? N=417

Time using AutoHotkey One in Three respondents have been using AutoHotkey for 5+ years Approximately how long have you been using AutoHotkey? N=463

AutoHotkey Usage Hotkeys are the most frequently cites use Mean 6.5 Median 6 Mode 3 Below are some of the main uses of AutoHotkey. Please select the options/functionality you regularly rely / use the software N=463

Favorite AutoHotkey Functionality Nearly 1/3rd of respondent state Hotkeys are favorite functionality Earlier you selected the following functionality that you use in AutoHotkey.  Which is your favorite / most used functionality? N=420

Willing to Pay for AutoHotkey Support Would you pay someone else to write a script for you / train you? N=462 Which of the following reasons best summarize why you would not pay someone? Which of the following best reflect why you did/would pay someone? N=335 N=114

Preferred IDE for AutoHotkey Notepad++ and SciTE4AutoHotkey are dominant IDEs What IDE / editor do you prefer to use with AutoHotkey? N=463

Favorite Functionality for IDE In your opinion what type of functionality does [question7]have that makes it better than the others? N=316

Sources use for Learning AutoHotkey AutoHotkey Documentation and Forum heavily relied on Common mentions Google search IRC Which of the following do you use frequently for learning about AutoHotkey? N=425

Scripts Use / Write in an average week Most users Use more than 6 per week and write more than 11 Please think about the following questions for an average week How many different AutoHotkey scripts do you use? How many different AutoHotkey scripts have you written? N=419

Percent selecting 5 thru 7 AutoHotkey Training Nearly 1/3rd show significant interest in free monthly webinar Percent selecting 5 thru 7  Please state how interested you are in the following AutoHotkey related learning / training (1=Not Interested 7=Extremely Interested) N=413

Competitive Tools Used PowerShell most common used competitive tool Over 1/3rd haven’t used other competitive tools. Common mentions VBA Dos / Batch files MacroExpress PhraseExpress What competitive tools do you use / Have you used? N=425

Other Frequently used Programming Languages JavaScript, SQL and Visual Basic most often cited as also frequently used Mean 2.2 Median 2 Common mentions VBA HTML / CSS Dos / Batch LUA What languages do you frequently program in? N=434

Desired Functionality If you could choose to add new functionality to AutoHotkey, what would you like added? N=316

Demographics / Corpographics

Job Function IT shows strong prominence of Job function N=410 Which best describes your job function? N=410

Gender Typically women are more likely to complete surveys than men. Given that, what percentage of respondents do you believe “self identify” as Female? Are you.. N=405

Age Group One in two respondents was over 35 N=407 Of the following, which best represents your age? N=407

Years of Work Experience Over half of respondent have 10+ years of work experience Approximately 1 in 5 have less than 3 years of work experience Approximately how many years of work experience do you have? N=408

Company Industry One in Five respondents work at “High Tech” company Which best describes the industry of your company? N=396

# of Employees at Company Respondents work at all sizes of companies however there is a dominance of being either Self employed or working for large companies Which best describes the number of employees at your company?  N=396

Source of Respondents Not surprisingly the AutoHotkey forum was largest source of respondents Recruitment from LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter, Stack Overflow was poor N=475

Can follow-up with additional questions Over 2/3rds of respondents were willing to have follow-up conversations around their responses. (Shows High involvement / interest in AutoHotkey & the study) If there are questions about your responses, may we contact you with follow-up questions? N=402

Drawing for Amazon Gift Card Ben: Coraopolis, PA, United States ID=369 Conclusion Drawing for Amazon Gift Card Ben: Coraopolis, PA, United States ID=369