I think it would be strange though, if a stat site meant to replace nostr.band, and was released after it went down, also relied on it to be able to calculate accurate stats.
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The stats site is different than people connected to their relay, though. I'd assume new stats collection would still want to use that info as a source. That was/is a popular one in many lists. Probably easier to monitor than 100 tiny relays.
From nostr:nprofile1qqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxrhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhx5etxvenjuenedyhsqqgrh0 the creator of the stats site in the OP
nostr:naddr1qqvxxmm4de6xjmn8946xsefdw4hxxmm4de6xzcnvv5q3jamnwvaz7tmswfjk66t4d5h8qunfd4skctnwv46z7q3qzuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsxpqqqp65w362y6k
Thanks, I'll read it when I sit down for the night.
Interesting. I have no clue what "smart relay selection" means. The site shows the top 50 relays in 10002s, but it doesn't say what (if any) part that has in the other data shown or give any indication of how many relays are actually being monitored. relay.nostr.band is #7 though. Relayable is listed in the top 12... still lots of education to do 😅
My main takeaway is that it is using it's own database of events(currently indexed: 812.09M events · Nov 6, 2020 – Jan 13, 2026), and continually gathering from other relays, which it obtains from users kind 10002 events.
I also noticed the mutiny wallet relay is in the top 50. I swear it's been two years since that closed shop. Could be unaware users, and likely some of the group who have left. No need to update your relays if you're not using Nostr anymore.
So - what's happening here is that it gets the full list of all pubkeys that we've seen, then fetches the most recently published 10002 event for each, then get's all the relay URLs from that (normalizing the URLs and throwing away complete trash along the way) and then counts.
Yes, there are a lot of pubkeys that have very old relays on their lists. There are also obviously some bot forms in there as well I'm guessing.