[tor-dev] Question about estimated number of clients

[Karsten Loesing]

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Dear Lei,

I'm sorry, but we don't have any data about that.  As I wrote before,
relays aggregate requests over a period of 24 hours.  There's no way
how I could give you anything more detailed than what relays report.

All the best,
Karsten


On 25/03/15 21:58, Lei Yang wrote:
> 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:
> 
> 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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