[tor-dev] Question about estimated number of clients

[Karsten Loesing]

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On 24/03/15 21:57, Lei Yang wrote:
> I have a question about estimated number of Tor clients. I know
> that the average number of Tor clients per day for each country is
> provided on the metrics site, which is a daily basis number. I am
> curious if I can get a more fine-grained information about how many
> clients are using Tor per hour for each country? I would like to
> know the peak number of concurrent users who are using Tor at a
> given time. Can anyone please give me some clues?

You'll find some related "questions and answers about user statistics"
here:

https://gitweb.torproject.org/metrics-web.git/tree/doc/users-q-and-a.txt

Let me try to rephrase your question and answer it here, so that it
can be added to that page, probably as fifth question after "So, are
these distinct users per day...":

"""
Q: Are there more fine-grained numbers available, for example, on the
number of users per hour?
A: No, the relays that report these statistics aggregate requests by
country of origin and over a period of 24 hours.  The statistics we
would need to gather for the number of users per hour would be too
detailed and might put users at risk.
"""

Does that make sense?

All the best,
Karsten

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