[tor-dev] Question about estimated number of clients

[Lei Yang]

Dear Dr. Loesing,

Thank you very much for your clear explanation.

Best regards,
Lei

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:10 AM, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org>
wrote:

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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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