Some forum statistics for you to mull over (graphs!)

[j0be]

Some stats (not including before we had spam protection enabled)
http://i.imgur.com/Hg31D.jpg

Orange means it includes data from before we enabled spam protection
http://i.imgur.com/6ZUUT.jpg

[Rock Daddy]

Yes! I'm happy the fanbase is growing. But I'm really excited that you made graphs!!!! :D

[Meeks]

Oooh lines going up and colors. This is a good post :P

[Kc]

Oooh lines going up and colors. This is a good post :P
What are our 5 year projections? ;)

[Zombiehead]

I barely got a B in Geometry. The blue one means we have over 1000 members now?

[Wicked Sid]

Almost 10,000 posts? Wow.

[cPT.cAPSLOCK]

I'm curious at what caused the peek roughly 3/4 between Jan 19 and Feb 19... What's the exact date of that, J0be?

[nikvoodoo]

The final chapter part for chapter 18 ws released on February 7th so that might be the cause of it. I know that there was a big bump in activity....I'm pretty sure we also had a large amount of spam accounts created around that time which might explain the huge spike in sign ups.

[TCM Revolver]

I'm pretty sure we also had a large amount of spam accounts created around that time which might explain the huge spike in sign ups.

Thats exactly it, in February is when we really implemented our spam protocols. Any thing after Feb 13th is data that hasn't been compromised.

[j0be]

yea February 7-12 was our big spam arrival. Here's some raw data


Date Daily Reg Cumulative Reg Daily Posts Posts Cumulative
February 7, 2011 67 406 542 2478
February 8, 2011 56 462 142 2620
February 9, 2011 22 484 125 2745
February 10, 2011 44 528 43 2788
February 11, 2011 38 566 81 2869
February 12, 2011 37 603 47 2916
February 13, 2011 1 604 85 3001

[timberwoof]

Good Stats. I didn't get involved with the forum until recently but have been listening to the series for quite a while. Maybe the jump in registration was like me, I heard enough and started asking myself questions and thought others may help me answer them.

[j0be]

I thought I would just add some quick minor additional stats.
Our average daily registration per month:


January: 13.6 (forum influx from previous forum)
February: 19.1 (spam influx)
March: 7.9
April: 7.7 (thus far)

Overall: 12.9

Our average daily posts per month:


January: 101.2
February: 116.3
March: 133.5
April: 133.4

Overall: 121.9

[j0be]

Well, I generated some cool stats that we don't have in our panel at all, but I thought you all might like.
Averages for the day of week:


Reg Posts
S 10.5 164.9
M 17.1 182.8
T 15.7 129.7
W 10.2 110.3
T 11.0 98.2
F 11.2 75.8
S 15.1 100.7

[MrScott101]

Mondays are hyperactive due to release of new episodes and Fridays are lax because we've thoroughly discussed the subjects at hand. I'm hoping we can find something to make fridays more active. Maybe if WND keeps on releasing episodes on Fridays that could help make those days busier.

[j0be]

Updated the parent post with some nice fresh images.


Some stats (not including before we had spam protection enabled)
http://i.imgur.com/Hg31D.jpg

Orange means it includes data from before we enabled spam protection
http://i.imgur.com/6ZUUT.jpg

[Meeks]

What are our 5 year projections? ;)

5 year projections are: it's gonna be good.

And that's my expert opinion, lol.

[j0be]

What are our 5 year projections? ;)
Assuming linear growth: (based on current appearances)
5 years after the launch of the forums, there would be:
13,774 registered users
227,126 Posts
14,875 threads

3,658 active users

[Zombiehead]

We're going to need a bigger boat.

[j0be]

We're going to need a bigger boat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gciFoEbOA8