How many people play on lichess?

Just curious, how many people have and account on lichess.org/? Is there a link that shows you the amount of people that play on this site in the world?

You can at least check how many players there are this week in each variation:

lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/blitz

I don't know if there's any way to check the number of active accounts or the number of total accounts, but both of those seem like they're not necessarily a very good indicator of the total number of people; there might be a number of non-playing data-gathering bots, multi-accounters, people that joined and then didn't do anything else, etc.

There's also the factor of anonymous users, and thibault can correct me if I'm wrong here but I'm pretty sure there are more of them than signed-up users. I can certainly get games more easily with anons than anyone else. I know your question specifically doesn't include them, but I just thought I'd throw that out there as a bit of a thinker.

I'm afraid that the question has many answers, none of them can be satisfying.

Here's one: 1,180,522 accounts were created.

Doesn't mean much.

#3 How many account with at least 10 games in the last 12 months ?

That's too expensive a query to run on the database.

what do you think about this approach in 2 steps :

first get the counting with something like :

select player_id, count(game_id) as nb_games
from games_table
where date > now - 12 months
group_by player_id

which should not be expensive with an index on player_id which I guess there is

inject the result in a temporary table player_id | nb_games

then select count(player_id) from new_table where nb_games >= 10

More than 100 million games were played in the last 12 months.

hey , did you perform the select without the group by to figure it out ?
or maybe it's just an evaluation :(
I hope you ran the query ! ^^

ohh who was the millionth account??!! ;)

the millionth ! the millionth ! the millionth !