I'm just curious: how many users are there on Stack Overflow altogether?
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240,975 users thats massive :))) well done stackoverflow– getawayCommented Sep 22, 2010 at 11:59
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why is this a bad question? its honest and clear– MikeCommented Sep 22, 2010 at 15:36
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after running a subquestion on my own- It seems that the last answer is the only right one since it balances out the deleted users and is constantly being updated - rather than the answer you adopted which is the least accurate!– noawithouthCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 17:40
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As of a few moments ago, StackOverflow boasts:
- 21 million questions
- 31 million answers on 70% of the questions
- 14 million users
- 10 million visits per day
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I think this number is exclusive inactive users. The total is then about: 455K users, 345K active, 241K registered.– user138231Commented Sep 22, 2010 at 12:31
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@Balus -- Yeah, so? :) Besides, what keeps a user that has been deleted for inactivity to then reregister? What about merged users? What about spammers' sockpuppets?– badpCommented Sep 22, 2010 at 12:33
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You need to read "users" as "accounts".– user138231Commented Sep 22, 2010 at 12:34
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how did you reach these numbers about the non active users? Commented Dec 6, 2012 at 22:35
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Active users' definition is different for each product, in general, it is anyone who gets some value from the website/app they visited/opened. It could be time spent or specific events triggered. For instance, It might be a user who is doing at least one of the following : 1. Answering a question 2. Asking a question 3. Commenting, 4. Searching/browsing questions/answers. 5. Scrolling down more than 50% of the page 6. Spent x minutes on the page ... etc Commented Dec 9, 2022 at 0:55
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@George: that falls in the "inactive" category. Those users with some default lightgray face-avatar and without a profile page. Or do you have a different definition of it?– user138231Commented Sep 22, 2010 at 22:18
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The method I outline in my answer gives a more accurate number. Commented Sep 22, 2010 at 23:14
As of 22nd September 2010 there are 6885 pages of users with 35 users per page.
Given that the last page won't be full there's between (6884 * 35) and (6885 * 35) registered users.
The best way of finding this out is to use the API:
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/stats?type=jsontext
According to the page, there are 344,686 users.
answered Sep 22, 2010 at 19:10
Data query: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/227868/select-count-from-users
13M as of January 2021.
answered Sep 6, 2015 at 12:46
