How Many People Are Playing Roblox Right Now

If you are now playing games in Roblox, you may wonder about the amount of people who are playing Roblox right now. If you want to know about it, you are able to use a website which can give you the information about it.

Finding Out The Amount of People Who Are Playing Roblox Right Now

There is a website named Player Counter which can be accessed at https://playercounter.com/roblox/. On this site, you are able to know how many people are playing Roblox now because they claim that they show the live Roblox players who are playing Roblox right now. If you want to know the latest update, you can click on the Update Player Count button on that site.

As explained on that site, the more popular a game is, the more often the amount of players online can change because new players begin and others end their gaming session. If there are special announcements by Roblox Corporation, developer of the game or tournaments by popular players, it can give an effect on how many people are playing Roblox right now.

It is also explained on that site that the amount of active players that you see on that site is the closest estimate of the amount of people who are  playing Roblox now all around the world in real time. Furthermore, it is explained that this figure is as estimated using their Gohost Network Protocol technology, otherwise known as GNP.

On that site, you are not only able to check the number of live Roblox players, but you are also able to check the number of live players of other games such as Genshin Impact, Animal Crossing, Call of Duty, Minecraft, Valorant and many more.

To find the number of live players of other games, you are able to click on the Game List which can be found at the top right of the screen. After you click on the Game List, then you will be taken to the Game List page. There, you can click on the game that you want to know about the number of the live players of. Let’s say that you want to know how many players are playing the Minecraft game right now. So, you have to click on the Minecraft Live Player Count.

Roblox Users and Growth Stats

Over the last few years, the popularity of Roblox has risen. As explained on the Back Linko, the pandemic has helped the gaming industry get skyrocketing growth where it has added millions of users to Roblox. On BackLinko, it is also explained that in April 2021, Roblox got a milestone of 202 million monthly active users where it increased from 146 million in April 2020.

Here are the statistics of Roblox usage according to the Back Linko.

• • Roblox has 43.2 million daily active users and it is up from 14 million daily active users in 2016.
  • On the Roblox platform, there are 9.5 million developers.
  • During the platform’s all-time peak usage, Roblox had 5.7 million concurrent users.
  • On Roblox, $328 million was made by community developers.
  • In Roblox, there are over 40 million games.
  • 67% of Roblox users are under 16 years old.

Also, according to the Back Linko, here is the table of Roblox user growth since 2016.

On the Back Linko is also explained that Roblox has 43.2 million daily active users worldwide it is an increase from 19.1 million daily active users by the end of 2019. On that site, it is explained that 28% of Roblox daily active users are based in the US and Canada and it equals as 12.1 million daily active users in the US and Canada alone.

According to the company’s SEC filing (Form S-1) as also explained on the Back Linko, as of Q2 2021, Roblox has 11.8 million daily active users in Europe and it equals 27.3% of Roblox’s total worldwide user base.

How about in the Asia-Pacific region? It is explained that Roblox has 7.2 million daily active users. In Asia, Roblox has added 2.6 million new daily active users over the past 4 quarters alone.

Back Linko also shows that 12.1 million daily active Roblox users are based outside of North America, Europe and Asia. In the last 2 years, the daily active user base of Roblox outside of North America, Europe and Asia increased by 2.361x.

How about the engagement hours on Roblox? First, you need to know the definition of engagement hours. Engagement hours is the total time which is spent on the Roblox platform. As explained on the Back Linko site, when Roblox first launched in 2006, they had a very limited engagement.

In Q2 2021, 9.73 billion hours of user engagement on Roblox was registered and it was an increase from 2.1 billion vs. early 2018. It is also explained that Roblox has added 1.3 billion hours of engagement in the first 2 quarters of 2021 alone.

An average of 156 minutes or 2.6 hours per day was spent by Roblox daily active users on the platform.

How about the age distribution of Roblox’s user base? Roblox platform is dominated by young platforms and 67% of users are under 16 years old. There is only 14% of Roblox users who are over 25 years old.

According to Roblox Investor Day presentation as also explained on the Bank Linko, 54.86% of Roblox daily active users were under 13 years old as of 2020.

The distribution of the gender of Roblox players, now it is almost the same where male is 51% and female is 44%.

That’s the information about Roblox users and growth stats according to the Back Linko. You can read more in detail by accessing that site.

Alfin Dani

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