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!
This was about 10am UK TIME
you’re absolutely right I registered on my phone 26k on or before10am and was still going up
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Joined Zwift 10 days ago due to virus. Loving it. Hopefully more participant will mean more developments. 👍
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.
Ride On!
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.
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 !!!
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.
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.
Those are all signs of an underpowered system. It’s not a Zwift server/capacity issue, it’s a local system processing issue.
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 »
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.
Thanks for your reply, I guess I’ll have to experiment a bit.
Shane Miller has a good video on this.
https://youtu.be/JNBuQLP2jJk
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!
Wrong PLACE, Go and run along. https://forums.zwift.com/c/general-discussion/15
Zwiftinsider is not run by the Zwift company and not a place to complain about Zwift pricing.
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..
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.
It’s your system not zwift. https://youtu.be/JNBuQLP2jJk
Come posso risolvere l’errore su l’orario della pedalata
At what point do we stop talking about peak zwift?
When it stops happening for a while. 🙂
It’s a lot more fun than the other statistics we are all watching these days.
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