how many people are actually active on chess.com?

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Is there a way to see how many players are online right now on chess.com and how many games are going on?

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I counted seven but they keep moving so I can;t be sure.

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great to see that there are some helpful and useful moderators around tho

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I'm here to moderate (hence the title), not hold your hand.

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some handholding would be nice tho
appreciate it, thx

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My ordinal rank, and percentage rank for Rapid implies that over 4 million people have played at least one game in the last 90 days. 

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Batgirl - the stats that give 379,000 playing includes all games in progress. Not just live games. Same for games today.

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BadBishopJones3 wrote:

Batgirl - the stats that give 379,000 playing includes all games in progress. Not just live games. Same for games today.

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and how many are there now?

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solskytz wrote:

61,000 are not 3% but 0.3% - so if you're generous you get to 1.5% to 1.7% playing from time to time

People say hilarious things.  This ratio of 5:1 (1.5% to 0.3%) assumes the average amount of time an active member of chess.com spends on the site each week is about 34 hours!

In truth a small number of players spend hours on the site and a larger number spend a small amount of time on the site in an average day.

Checking the blitz stats, it appears around 4.4 million people are counted as active in this format. I think that means they have played in the last 3 months. This is the most popular chess format on the site. 

From batgirl's post we can infer the average frequency of playing is a couple of games a week (the player numbers being dominated by players who play very little, and the game numbers by those who play a great deal).