[tor-dev] Question about estimated number of clients

[Karsten Loesing]

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Dear Lei,

great, added that question and answer to the FAQ.

All the best,
Karsten


On 25/03/15 19:19, Lei Yang wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 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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