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Access statistics
Country and operator distribution of the clients querying this time server. Produced once a day from the server's own client table; no individual IP address is stored.
The web server, like every website, keeps a standard access log. Those records stay on this server only; they are not published, not shared with third parties, and not used in the statistics on this page.
Where these numbers come from
The time server keeps an in-memory record for every client that queries it. Once a day that table is read from end to end, the counts are aggregated, and the summary published on this page is produced. The table itself is never written to disk: the read is streamed through a pipeline and when the process finishes only the totals remain.
Mapping IP addresses to countries and operators is done on this server, against locally held databases. No query is sent to any external service, so the addresses of the clients querying this server never reach a third party.
How to read the numbers
| Term | What it counts | Caveat |
|---|---|---|
| Client | a unique IP address | On residential connections the address changes, so this is not the same as the number of real devices. |
| Distinct network | an IPv4 /24 or IPv6 /48 prefix | Unaffected by a single address changing; represents the number of independent networks more robustly than the client count. |
| Autonomous system | a network running its own routing policy | In practice an operator or a large institution. Shows how many distinct networks reach us. |
| Packets served | answered NTP requests | Requests refused by the rate limiter are not included in this figure. |
IPv4 / IPv6 split
the IPv6 core networks of mobile operators pull this ratioBy country
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By autonomous system
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