[metrics-team] Tor Browser Update Ping event 2019-04-07

[Georg Koppen]

Karsten Loesing:
> Hi!
> 
> On 2019-05-01 21:11, nusenu wrote:
>> What happened on 2019-04-07 ?
>>
>> Update pings went from ~750 000 to ~1 750 000?
>>
>> Is this a glitch or real?
>>
>> https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-platform.html?start=2019-04-01&end=2019-05-01
>>  
>> https://metrics.torproject.org/webstats-tb-locale.html?start=2019-04-01&end=2019-05-01
> 
> Hard to say. It doesn't really look like a bug on the metrics side.
> Maybe something related to the webservers where these requests are
> counted or a change to the mechanism how update pings are conducted?
> 
> However, it doesn't look like a sudden increase in user numbers.
> 
> Maybe a Tor Browser person would know better? I'm copying Georg and
> Nicolas on this thread.

I think that's still https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/22346.

We don't know what is happening here. :(

Georg


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