[metrics-team] Drop in users

Karsten Loesing karsten at torproject.org
Tue Dec 27 14:41:01 UTC 2016


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On 27/12/16 12:09, David Goulet wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> Just noticed this, a massive drop in users (link below is the
> .onion for Metrics):
> 
> http://rougmnvswfsmd4dq.onion/userstats-relay-country.html
> 
> I've looked at few countries like Russia and US that we have lots
> of users and they all have the same drop. Even a place like Canada
> has that.
> 
> I'm wondering if this is actually a Metrics glitch or else a big
> ass botnet has been taken down? Or we are seeing quite the
> censorship event accross the world... ?
> 
> We should really figure this out soon.

If you play with the dates, you'll notice that the sudden drop comes
from a single date: December 25, 2016.  Looking at the .csv file, the
next day the number will be back at 1.5M again, but that day is not
displayed yet.  This looks worse than it really is.

All the best,
Karsten

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