diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b67f0a..af18570 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ CHANGELOG
 README: FreeBSD execution needs mailer (not found), sudo missing, bash needed, sed missing (see if StripQuotes mandatory)
 
 ! XX Mar 2016: obackup v2.0 released
+- Added optional statistics for installer
 - Added an option to ignore knownhosts for ssh connections (use with caution, this can lead to a security issue)
 - Improved mail fallback
 - More logging enhancements
diff --git a/dev/merge.sh b/dev/merge.sh
index 74bfd59..d198f2c 100755
--- a/dev/merge.sh
+++ b/dev/merge.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 ## Merges ofunctions.sh and n_osync.sh into osync.sh
 
 PROGRAM=obackup
+VERSION=$(grep "PROGRAM_VERSION=" n_$PROGRAM.sh)
+VERSION=${VERSION#*=}
 FUNC_PATH=/home/git/common
 
 PARANOIA_DEBUG_LINE="__WITH_PARANOIA_DEBUG"
@@ -36,7 +38,8 @@ function CleanDebug {
 }
 
 function CopyCommons {
-	sed "s/\[prgname\]/$PROGRAM/g" /home/git/common/common_install.sh > ../install.sh
+	sed "s/\[prgname\]/$PROGRAM/g" /home/git/common/common_install.sh > ../tmp_install.sh
+	sed "s/\[version\]/$VERSION/g" ../tmp_install.sh > ../install.sh
 	sed "s/\[prgname\]/$PROGRAM/g" /home/git/common/common_batch.sh > ../$PROGRAM-batch.sh
 	chmod +x ../install.sh
 	chmod +x ../obackup-batch.sh
@@ -46,4 +49,5 @@ Unexpand
 Merge
 CleanDebug
 rm -f tmp_$PROGRAM.sh
+rm -f ../tmp_install.sh
 CopyCommons
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index fbc48fa..0568a42 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 PROGRAM=obackup
+PROGRAM_VERSION=2.0-pre
 PROGRAM_BINARY=$PROGRAM".sh"
 PROGRAM_BATCH=$PROGRAM"-batch.sh"
-SCRIPT_BUILD=2016032202
+SCRIPT_BUILD=2016032501
 
 ## osync / obackup daemon install script
 ## Tested on RHEL / CentOS 6 & 7, Fedora 23, Debian 7 & 8, Mint 17 and FreeBSD 8 & 10
@@ -32,7 +33,6 @@ case $local_os_var in
 	;;
 esac
 
-
 if [ "$(whoami)" != "$USER" ]; then
   echo "Must be run as $USER."
   exit 1
@@ -104,3 +104,28 @@ if [ -f "./osync-srv" ]; then
 		echo "Created osync-srv service in [$SERVICE_DIR]."
 	fi
 fi
+
+function Statistics {
+
+	local link="http://instcount.netpower.fr?program=$PROGRAM&version=$PROGRAM_VERSION"
+	if type wget > /dev/null; then
+		wget $link > /dev/null 2>&1
+	elif type curl > /dev/null; then
+		curl $link > /dev/null 2>&1
+	else
+		echo "Neiter wget nor curl installed. Cannot run statistics. Use link below please."
+	fi
+}
+
+echo "$PROGRAM installed. Use with $BIN_DIR/$PROGRAM"
+echo ""
+echo "In order to make install statistics, the script would like to connect to http://instcount.netpower.fr?program=$PROGRAM&version=$PROGRAM_VERSION"
+read -r -p "No data except those in the url will be send. Allow [Y/n]" response
+case $response in
+	[nN])
+	exit
+	;;
+	*)
+        Statistics
+        ;;
+esac