Some day I think we will have a publication source where node runners upload anonymous stats so we can see general wide angle trends like 24 activity from Germany to Kenya. That would help node runners see where demand is and make decisions about creating new connections, and it would allow us to see if the network as a whole was slow on a prior day, which might help in automating fee adjustments (not changing them if the network as a whole is the reason for the lower throughput).