Most Popular Strava Segments in the world?

[Kobestarr]

Hi there, 

I was wondering if there is any way to rank all of the Strava Segments by number of Attemps (and also possibly number of unique riders). Im interested in the most popular segments in the world and am mainly interested in the cycling segments, but the run ones would also be interesting!

Thanks

K*

[Ben Lowe]

The segments in Richmond Park in London are the clear winners I believe. Just go look at them with the Segment Explorer. Then Box Hill.

[Paul Mach]

I don't know if anyone has done the actual query, but this is what I believe to be the most ridden segment https://www.strava.com/segments/1032028

Dr. Paul Mach

STRAVA

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Ben Lowe <b.j....@gmail.com> wrote:

The segments in Richmond Park in London are the clear winners I believe. Just go look at them with the Segment Explorer. Then Box Hill.

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[Kobestarr]

Awesome - this one will be hard to beat but will have an insanely hi attempt Density due to the low number of riders.

What would it take to perform more queries on this type of matter?

Kobi

[Matthew Redmond]

Howdy - I'm a data scientist working at Strava.

Dr. Mach is correct - http://www.strava.com/segments/1032028 is the segment with the most efforts on it.

[Kobestarr]

Hey Ben, Paul and Matt,

Thanks for answering - this is so cool! Paul and Matt, do you mind if I ask you a few more questions offline?

I represent a consortium of cyclists that use Regents Park www.regentsparkcyclists and we are currently under threat of losing it as a training facility.

We are trying to protect it and data that Strava holds would be really helpful to our cause. I will try and connect with you both on LinkedIn if that is ok?

Kobi

[Paul Mach]

In general, these types of queries are handled by the Metro team. http://metro.strava.com/

Dr. Paul Mach

STRAVA

Kobi

[Kobi Omenaka]

Wow - I didn't know that existed!

Thanks! 

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[Jerry Perullo]

While I don't catalog this directly, I do score segments by popularity and thus have mined some relevant data.  I stopped running some big cities including London a while back because of server and network load, but I remember it stood out (with San Fran in close second) as the obvious most popular area.  Within London when I rank segments by "points" (riders) I see some with many more riders than the Sao Paolo one.  While Sao Paulo indeed has 1.7m attempts, it just with 3200 riders.  "Sawyer's Hill RAB to Holly Junction", on the other hand (indeed in Richmond Park) tops my list with almost 52,000 unique riders! (although "just" 640k attempts).  With such an attempt/rider ratio I'd say the Sao Paolo segment is kinda tainted - likely because it is so short and the same people just ride a disproportionate number of laps on it.  I think to really answer your "most popular" question you would want to know the one with the most unique riders, and by my (admittedly narrowed) view Richmond Park indeed has it.

FWIW, I've ridden all those popular Richmond Park segments in addition to Regents Park.  Both are very cool and a lot of fun.  Good luck keeping Regents accessible.

Here is my API site view on London ranked by popularity:

http://www.sranks.com/new?city=london&view=segs

Authenticate if you want to get more detail and be able to activate links to the segments.

[Dylan Nicholson]

How about segments with at least 250m elevation gain?  Checked all the "famous" climbs, none seem to come close.