online history
Introduction
The charts on this page show historical stats for how many bots were online at once and online over the past 1, 7, and 30 days over time. Basic instructions:
- Click and drag on charts to zoom in.
- Double click on charts to reset zoom level.
Noteworthy dates:
- March 7, 2011 - Closed beta ends, open beta begins.
- July 1, 2011 - Open beta ends, game officially launches.
And for the detail-obsessed, here is some additional info:
- Data is collected every minute starting June 29, 2016.
- New! November 19, 2017: Although data is collected every minute, this page now shows data at only ~daily resolution. It would otherwise be too much data for the server and your client to work with using the current setup. It's possible I could find a clever way to make the full resolution data available, but this is low priority.
- Note that I said "~daily" instead of "daily" because the minimum gap between data points is actually 23 hours instead of 24. This is to reduce time-of-day bias in the online count chart.
- Although data is collected every minute, this page refreshes at most once per day (less than daily technically because it loads on demand and then gets cached for 24 hours).
- Data is available for every day (read: once per day) before June 29, 2016. Before this date, data was not collected every minute, so it was backfilled using daily database backups (except for ~10 or so days where daily backups are missing). These daily backups go back to closed beta - February 15, 2011 to be specific.
- On October 4, 2014, the idle timeout changed from 15 minutes to 60 minutes. However, when backfilling data for these charts, in order to have a consistent comparable number across all time, 60 minutes was used as the idle timeout in deciding how many bots were online at each point.
- Since backfill data was always collected at the same time every day (midnight eastern US), the online count backfill numbers are somewhat vulnerable to time-of-day bias - the N day actives are resilient to this though.
Note: These values are
cached
and therefore may be out of date.
[last computed
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Online count
Each data point reflects the number of bots that were online at that moment in time.
1 day actives
Each data point reflects the number of bots that were online within the past 1 day at that moment in time.
7 day actives
Each data point reflects the number of bots that were online within the past 7 days at that moment in time.
30 day actives
Each data point reflects the number of bots that were online within the past 30 days at that moment in time.