On the 1st January 2015 lichess registered its 50 000 000th completed game (excluding aborted games).

Let's together review a few mind-blowing numbers about lichess!

Web traffic

According to Google Analytics, in 2014, we had:

190 757 559 pageviews - two times as many as 2013

3 163 423 unique visitors - two times as many as 2013

The most active countries are Russia (14%), USA (10%), France (6%) and Iran (5%).

At the time of writing, Alexa ranks lichess as the 17,457th most popular website, worldwide.

Chess stats

4 billion moves stored in the database, plus 78 played moves per second - or 6.7 million moves a day

140 thousand games finished every day

2.3 million computer analyzed games - amounting to 76 000 hours of processing

14.3 million puzzles solved by registered users

Development

1 server powering lichess app, the database and the search engine

$183 per month spent in hosting - now covered by user donations.

54 Stockfish instances on various donated servers, crunching chess moves and analysis 24/7

Countless hours of volunteer work from the lichess team

Finally, today we cross the symbolic threshold of 3000+ online players. These are very exciting numbers, and I have the feeling that this year, we will break unprecedented records.