[network-health] Queries about user statistic on Tor Metrics

[Nowshin, Nafisa]

Hello,

I am a graduate student at Oregon State University doing research on
digital privacy and security. My advisor is Dr. Glencora Borradaile. We are
trying to use tor metrics data in order to understand the reason why people
are connecting to tor and if it is because of some external motivation (the
topic of our research) or because they are regular users. Looking at the
user statistics available in tor metrics website, we had a few questions we
wanted to clarify.

1. How frequently tor browsers send out update pings? Is there a fixed
frequency or do they vary over time?
2. Are update pings sent every time a user opens their browser or only when
new updates are pushed to the tor browser?

Thank you for your time.

Regards

Nafisa Nowshin
Graduate Assistant
School of EECS, Oregon State University
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