Twitch Statistics

From Twitch's own public directory, read by this site's server about every 30 minutes: the live viewer total and channel count Twitch shows for each of its 100 most-watched categories, the global top 30 streams, and the top 100 streams of each of those categories, with each stream's viewer count, category and broadcast language. The read time is printed on the page. Nothing is estimated, and nothing is copied from another statistics site.

No. It is the sum of the 100 most-watched categories at the time of the read, which is as deep as Twitch's public listing lets an anonymous reader go. Smaller categories and streams with no category set are not in that total, so the real platform-wide figure is somewhat higher. Every total on the page says what it covers.

The page reads Twitch, Kick and YouTube Gaming about every 30 minutes and shows the time of the read. Other statistics sites read at other times, reach different depths and may use Twitch's developer API or their own trackers, so their totals and rankings differ; none of them, and not this page, is Twitch's official figure.

From our own readings, one about every 30 minutes. Hours watched adds up each reading's viewer total multiplied by 30 minutes; peak viewers is the largest single reading in the period; average viewers is the mean of the readings. A missed reading counts nothing, so every period figure is a floor rather than an interpolation. The same method gives each category's and channel's hours watched, counting only the readings in which it sat among the 50 largest categories or the 100 most-watched channels the read reached.

Our own half-hourly readings of the live listing, nothing else. The charts show each reading of viewers and live channels across the 100 most-watched categories, the rankings add up hours watched per category and per channel over the last 7 days, and the daily table gives each UTC day's peak and average. Recording started when the page went live; nothing older is back-filled or taken from another site, so the longer periods fill in over time.

Every Twitch channel declares one broadcast language. The split adds up the viewers of the streams the read reached by that declared language, so it describes where the large streams broadcast in, not where viewers live, and it does not cover every channel on Twitch.

Only what YouTube's public Gaming Live page lists to our server: about 50 live gaming streams chosen by YouTube for the US region, each with YouTube's own "watching" figure at the read time. YouTube does not rank that list and other regions see different streams, so it is a sample of YouTube Gaming rather than its biggest streams or its total audience. The page sums the listed streams and shows the most-watched of them, and says so.

Kick's public stream listing is read at the same time, sorted by viewers, about 20 pages deep, and the page sums the viewers of the streams it reached. That is the head of Kick, not the whole platform, and each platform's viewer figure is its own count, so the two numbers sit side by side rather than being added together.