Does anybody know how the faction population is gathered from for each server?
Is it taken from accounts made per server or active acounts per server?
Reason I ask is because I’ve had major difficulties completing quests, as entire areas are greyed out to me, due to the opposite faction farming that particular zone. it’s been like it for some time, even in BFA, so I simply assumed my server was a Horde heavy server. However, when I looked at a few sites online for server population stats Darkspear EU always seems to show as an Alliance heavy server. The info doesn’t seem to match the experience.
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The info is taken from players who add the data to the sites, which is why the info is very rarely accurate.
Aaaah, that explains a lot then. I was looking in to paying for a server transfer, but after the inaccuracies I’ve witnessed on my own server, it’s made me a little reluctant to trust in the numbers I’m seeing.
Thanks for the info Vercallus 
Those data are accurate and are actually not human posted. For instance, wow progress scraps Blizzards API, therefore are only displaying official PvE data from Blizzard. And many players here saying Alliance is fine for PvE are denying those official data.
There is no more reliable way to track population data for realms(from the communities side).Census plus was shut down year ago and the official census dev gave up on fixing addon two months ago.The data some sites present now is actually just second guessing it from data they have over a year ago.
Wowprogress way of tracking is by using the guild and forming some way of data,but thats only of any use to pve type of players,what they dont take into account is pvp,rp or people who dont take higher end pve.What you are left with is having realms like argent dawn(rp),outland(pvp) high on alliance population not presented as high pop,at least not high as they should.
The only reliable way for now is the in game realm selection screen/tracking while trying to figure out what faction balance of certain realm is,probably using wowprogress faction ratio cause the horde population polarized its self around Pve content more.
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Those data are accurate and are actually not human posted.
well, when i look up Darkspear EU it’s telling me it has a high Alliance population and that information is completely wrong by a long shot.
I can go anywhere on the map to any world quest and guarantee that area will be a sea of orange to me and make the experience slow and frustrating, so I can’t see how the data i accurate. The only thing I can think of is, maybe there are a lot of Alliance accounts that are no longer played, but the data is still including them in the calculation.
I think it’s a little odd that Blizzard charge for realm transfers, but do not provide figures. Imagine paying to to transfer to another server, which you believe to be populated one way, just to discover you’ve moved to a realm even worse than the one you left
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