[tor-dev] Retiring old user number estimates

[Karsten Loesing]

On 9/17/13 8:38 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 06:02:14PM -0400, Roger Dingledine wrote:
>> I think it would be good to write a paragraph or two to answer Matthew's
>> question -- why are these new numbers different, and what makes us think
>> they're better?
> 
> Speaking of which:
> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html#direct-users
> keeps going up
> 
> while
> https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html#userstats
> looks like it's going down again
> 
> yet
> https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#dirbytes
> looks a lot more like the first curve.
> 
> Does this change your mind any?

Really?  Here are the three graphs just for September, all ending on the
same day:

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&start=2013-09-01&end=2013-09-13&country=all&events=off#direct-users

https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=userstats-relay-country&start=2013-09-01&end=2013-09-13&country=all&events=off#userstats-relay-country

https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html?graph=dirbytes&start=2013-09-01&end=2013-09-13#dirbytes

These graphs don't look much different to me.

All the best,
Karsten