IPFS Stats / Explorer?

[Akita]

About the “main network”, there is no centralised place to check (yet), so it’s a hard question:

Size of the network

The release notes for go-ipfs 0.4.20 state: After AutoRelay was introduced in go-ipfs 0.4.19, the number of peers connecting through relays skyrocketed to over 120K concurrent peers. Where does that number come from? Is there a web page or a tool that shows the state of the network?

Estimating number of IPFS users

Question from Daniell Mesquita: "Estimated Number of IPFS users?" This is an interesting, but hard to answer question. First, we have to define what we mean by “IPFS users”. Do we mean the number of applications using IPFS in some way? Do we mean the number of developers directly building tools using IPFS? Do we mean the number of end users (aka “consumers”) of those applications, or the sum of all end users that depend on IPFS in some way (ex through dependencies)? Do we mean the number of ac…

The IPFS may have an estimate since there are running very popular nodes (Bootstrap nodes, Preload Nodes, Relay Nodes, Gateway Crawler, etc.)

Plus, IPFS nodes can be used to function in a private network (only talking to nodes in the same private network), or in a local network so it’s hard to count them in any way.

@wmougayar

How many transactions per day roughly, overall?

There is no “transaction” per se, because IPFS is not a blockchain or a marketplace. It’s a network of nodes storing and exchanging data.
There is a curently-building blockchain on top of IPFS that will provide incentive for that: Filecoin.

There is no “Explorer” as in “Ethereum Explorer” because there is no consensus on a common “list of files available” (or any common “big file” shared by everyone, such as a ledger in the blockchain world).

There could be a search-engine like Google and some others did for the Web, but they are still very WIP or rudimentary.
Exemple: ipfs-search.com , https://www.ipse.io