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    News

    New “Peak Zwift” Achieved: 34,940

    Eric Schlange
    By Eric Schlange
    April 5, 2020
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    Last Sunday we hit a new high of 28,305, then yesterday (Saturday) we broke the 30k mark for the first time in Zwift’s history.

    But this morning (Sunday) we blew away our record again – hitting a peak of ~34,940 at precisely 2am California time, or 9am GMT.

    Zwift isn’t confirming peak numbers during this time, so we don’t know the precise number. Astute Zwifter Kevin Wild sent us a screenshot showing 34,945, and one Garry Stevens posted a shot showing 34,954!

    With today’s peak we’ve more than doubled the Peak Zwift we set back in January 2020. Wow!

    Will it go higher? Yes. It jumped by nearly 6,500 in a week. It will go higher.

    Stay healthy, take care of one another, and Ride On!

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric runs Zwift Insider in his spare time when he isn't on the bike or managing various business interests. He lives in Northern California with his beautiful wife, two kids and dog. Follow on Strava

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      Gary Stevens
      Gary Stevens
      2 years ago

      This was about 10am UK TIME

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      un2know
      un2know
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Gary Stevens

      you’re absolutely right I registered on my phone 26k on or before10am and was still going up

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      un2know
      un2know
      2 years ago
      Reply to  un2know

      on Watopia

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      Pierre Brismail
      Pierre Brismail
      2 years ago

      Joined Zwift 10 days ago due to virus. Loving it. Hopefully more participant will mean more developments. 👍

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      Paul Smith
      Paul Smith(@smithpauld1501)
      2 years ago

      Although we’ve seen stuttering, ghost riders and other Zweirdness, the system overall is holding together much better than than in late 2018 during the Tour of New York. In that case we wagged our heads and said Zwift HQ should have known better. This was totally unlooked for. I ask you, does your cellular service have 30% surge built into it? I know for a fact that mine doesn’t.

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      Bill
      Bill
      2 years ago

      Ride On!

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      naan
      naan
      2 years ago

      Wondering what the ratio is for converting the daily peak to unique daily zwifters. My guess is something between 6 and 10 depending on day of week, huge events on the day or not etc. Anyway, a quarter million seems about right, not bad.

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      thewannabeironman
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      thewannabeironman(@wanna_b_ironman)
      2 years ago

      In Men’s health from May 2020, they have a page on Zwift: “13,000 the highest number of people recorded riding on Zwift simultaneously”. They are miles away !!!

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      Paul
      Paul
      2 years ago

      I don’t know about anyone else I’ve found its making racing much harder. In a 75 min race my screen froze momentarily about 10 times and each time I’d go from in a group to about 5 metres behind. Caught up for the first 9 times but all that sprinting trying to catch up and I eventually blew up.

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      Thrasius
      Thrasius
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Paul

      Yeah, I’ve stopped racing. There are too many in each race. It’s too unstable and just not fun, for me. There needs to be more events too, not just more worlds. I’m on Zwift to race, not for the free riding.

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Paul

      Those are all signs of an underpowered system. It’s not a Zwift server/capacity issue, it’s a local system processing issue.

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      Paul
      Paul
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Hi Eric, thanks for your reply, do you mind if I pick your brains, you say this is a local system processing issue. Does this mean my internet is just too busy at the moment or there’s an issue with my pc, (or could it be either of these). I’ve been using Zwift almost since the beginning and this is the first time I’ve encountered this. Occasionally previously the other riders disappear for a few seconds and then come back, which I always presumed is down to slow/laggy connection. This time no one disappeared it was just a momentary freeze… Read more »

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Paul

      Zwift basically runs as a whole virtual world on the client side, even with no Internet. So if it hung up and entirely froze for very long, that points to the issue being on your system. I don’t know what would cause such a thing (another program taking over your computer’s resources for a bit, perhaps?) but even if Zwift’s servers stopped talking to you, your avatar would animate smoothly all alone in the virtual world.

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      Paul
      Paul
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      Thanks for your reply, I guess I’ll have to experiment a bit.

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      Benjamin Pitt
      Benjamin Pitt(@benjamin_pitt)
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Paul

      Shane Miller has a good video on this.
      https://youtu.be/JNBuQLP2jJk

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      Brad Akers
      Brad Akers
      2 years ago

      You guys are only hitting new highs now due to the coronavirus. Are you considering giving a little back to your members or just cash in on the unfortunate situation everyone finds themselves in…?
      Cheers
      Brad
      Ps. I love using Zwift!

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      Godofzwift
      Godofzwift
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Brad Akers

      Wrong PLACE, Go and run along. https://forums.zwift.com/c/general-discussion/15

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      Andrew Linquist
      Andrew Linquist
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Brad Akers

      Zwiftinsider is not run by the Zwift company and not a place to complain about Zwift pricing.

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      Steve Shaw
      Steve Shaw
      2 years ago

      Finished stage 1 Haute Route on Friday, 2 attempts on Saturday for stage 2, 10 AM then 5 PM UK time it was unridable and and freezing and had to quit program as Zwift wouldn’t save and exit, entered stage 3 Sunday in D group but exactly the same, lost lots of elevation and miles and the Haute Route kit, I only hope Zwift has learnt something from this, but probably not..

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      Curtis Repen
      Curtis Repen(@crepen)
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Steve Shaw

      Must be your internet Steve. I rode HR stage 2 at noon Eastern (5PM UK) with a friend and had no such problems.Also rode stage 3 at noon Eastern Sunday with 2 friends. Worst I saw was a lot of bikes without riders at the start.

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      Benjamin Pitt
      Benjamin Pitt(@benjamin_pitt)
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Steve Shaw

      It’s your system not zwift. https://youtu.be/JNBuQLP2jJk

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      marcello
      marcello
      2 years ago

      Come posso risolvere l’errore su l’orario della pedalata

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      Dave
      Dave
      2 years ago

      At what point do we stop talking about peak zwift?

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      Eric Schlange
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      Eric Schlange(@eschlange)
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Dave

      When it stops happening for a while. 🙂

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      Ron Stewart
      Ron Stewart(@ronald)
      2 years ago
      Reply to  Eric Schlange

      It’s a lot more fun than the other statistics we are all watching these days.

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      Xavier
      Xavier
      11 months ago

      Probably those figures were skewed by the pandemic; now (since April 2021) that the world is somewhat going back to normal zwift feels pretty empty…

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