[tor-dev] Question about estimated number of clients

[Lei Yang]

Dear Dr. Loesing,

If it is possible, can I know the peak number of the concurrent clients?
For example, you publish a single number per day, like 200,000 clients who
are simultaneously using Tor. This number without geographical information
may not hurt the anonymity, but it may help me know how popular Tor is and
how much load is on Tor.

Best,
Lei

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Karsten Loesing <karsten at torproject.org>
wrote:

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> Dear Lei,
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> 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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