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

[Silvia/Hiro]

On 9/21/21 8:22 PM, Nowshin, Nafisa wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Hi Nafisa,

There will be a report coming out soon that might be of interest for
your research project. The UX and community teams have been working on
processing the result of a Tor Browser users survey. More details here:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/27

Talk soon,

-hiro

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