During their recent This Season on Zwift media event, Zwift shared the following slide summarizing Zwifter activity since the launch of the platform in September 2014:
Here’s the list of stats, with notes from me in italics:
- Total Miles: 3.37 billion
- Total Meters Climbed: 53 billion (that’s an average of 9.77 meters of climbing per km, which almost precisely matches NYC’s LaGuardia Loop or Makuri Islands’ Temples and Towers)
- Total Watt Hours: 26.9 billion (or 26.9 million kilowatt-hours. That’s enough to power New York City for approximately… 2.2 days. That’s 96.84 billion kilojoules, or 23.14 billion calories! That’s over 81 million pizza slices in Zwift math.)
- Average Elevation: 277m
- Average Distance: 17.47 miles
- Imperial Centuries: 171k
- Ride Ons Received: 1.11 billion (this means Zwifters have received 1 Ride On every 3 miles, on average)
- Workout Activities: 74.3 million
- Weekly Races: 1000+ (perhaps a bit high. Our numbers from ZwiftHacks show around 650 community races this week, plus 120 events for Zwift’s ZRacing series. This wouldn’t include private events such as WTRL’s Thursday TTTs, of course.)
- Peak Concurrent Users: 47k (we think it’s actually 49k)
- Total Moving Time: 191 million hours (that works out to an average speed of 17.6 miles per hour – not bad, considering running is included!)
- Pro Athlete Accounts: 2,395
Note: these stats all include running, except for “total watt hours”.
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Interesting data! Any information on the number of embarrassing typos while messaging during a Zwift ride? Asking for a friend 🙂
Wow, that’s a lot of potatoes!
Is there any information on the number of paying subscribers?
Nah, that’s a pretty closely-guarded secret!
what ? … only 2,2 days to power NYC ??? … that’s really thin … I think, we have to ride a bit more 🙈 … BUT let’s meet altogether and order these 81 million pizza slices 😎 … anyone here with a bigger appartment for the whole community ? 🤣
Are those NY style pizza slices?
If I’m doing this right, 26.9B/191M = 141 average watts (or a bit more, since like you said the denominator includes running). Also not bad!
Think I’ve eaten 81 actual pizzas since I’ve been on Zwift
Still not a meter rowed 😂
Considering that you, Eric, count for 1 Billion miles, it still means all other swifters sum up more than 2 billion!
Interesting. Would also like to see some individual stats (longest ride, most climbs AdZ, most altitude in one ride, most race-wins, etc.)