Forum Statistics

[Coolydudey]

Compiling some cool forum statistics to put on here. Anybody know how to get views per sub-forum in the meantime?

 

[Seed-Wad]

I don't know in what way you are collecting the data, but one way would be to parse all the pages of a subforum, use regex to make a list of all the values of the 'views' fields of each topic and then to make a sum of the list.

 

[Coolydudey]

No thanks. Looking for something sweet and simple. I'm not compiling advanced stats, just sub forum wide posts/threads etc.

 

[Fukyo]

I poked around a little, views for the subforums themselves don't seem to be a thing on the forum.

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=254547

 

[rjioej23]

Surely views and clicks would be with the administrators of the forum? Just like on a regular site where you have click and unique click views that you can track. Google have some software to do this for the administrators if not mistaken: http://www.google.com/analytics/

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

So came up with some interesting stats?
With the data i have i would approximate posts/hour as 0.6

 

[GodOfOrder]

You could search for threads with polls in them, compile those records into one place, and put them on the history book

 

[Ex-User (9086)]

Ok i was wrong with 0.6, 0.6 is rather young.

Assuming this forum began in July 2007, there were 2348 days or 56352 hours that passed since the beginning.

In that time 310007 posts were sent and this gives us the stat of posts/hour at 5.501259937535491.

We can see how the activity on this forum has been decreasing.
Analysing the standard model of activity we can propose that for this forum to become more active there would have to be a general swing in either content or population.

I don't suggest that lower than average activity is bad, after all there can be only as much said about different things as there is without repeating patterns too heavily.

This gives interesting glimpse on the role this forum plays and on general area of culture that it creates.

 

[Jennywocky]

This forum is smaller than other forums I'm on, with a slower posting rate. Then again, it's a forum geared toward a specific personality type that could be expected to have slower posts with more thought invested and otherwise people who enjoy spending time alone. The numbers aren't really surprising.

 

[Coolydudey]

Posts/hour is a good one... Anyway, I kinda got bored of doing it so I'm not sure whether I'll upload them. I have got a cool chart of posts/thread in each subforum, but not bothered to upload it.

 

[Fukyo]

[bIMG]http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/583/968/208.png[/bIMG]

 

[Coolydudey]

[bIMG]http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/583/968/208.png[/bIMG]

O...K...

I just don't have anywhere to upload them to.

 

[Ex-User (5841)]

@Blarraun

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Ok i was wrong with 0.6, 0.6 is rather young.

Assuming this forum began in July 2007, there were 2348 days or 56352 hours that passed since the beginning.

In that time 310007 posts were sent and this gives us the stat of posts/hour at 5.501259937535491.

We can see how the activity on this forum has been decreasing.
Analysing the standard model of activity we can propose that for this forum to become more active there would have to be a general swing in either content or population.

I don't suggest that lower than average activity is bad, after all there can be only as much said about different things as there is without repeating patterns too heavily.

This gives interesting glimpse on the role this forum plays and on general area of culture that it creates.

Consider that there have been outages in the past, so the outages as well as the recovery afterward may have hindered posts per day as a suitable statistic.

Of course, not all users post. Once a forum has accumulated a sufficient amount of information in the archives, I'd imagine lurkers become more prominent. I know the forum has used increasing amounts of bandwidth (the ideal stat, imho) from 2007 through 2008 during its initial growth phase, but I'm not sure about much else.

Content and population are strongly correlated. Many members here are members of other forums. What do they offer that this one doesn't? But a huge population (or a huge growth rate) isn't always a good thing.

O...K...

I just don't have anywhere to upload them to.

Screenshot & Imgur?

 

[Coolydudey]

Screenshot & Imgur?

Didn't realize there was a place you could upload them without an account. Thanks Doc.

If anyone wants more stats, ask for them and I'll try and do them, as I haven't got the motivation to think of new interesting ones right now.

Posts/Thread for each subforum

http://imgur.com/zz8Arzc,cHsGZnC

The same, excluding the elysium.

http://imgur.com/zz8Arzc,cHsGZnC#1

 

[BigApplePi]

Ok i was wrong with 0.6, 0.6 is rather young.

Assuming this forum began in July 2007, there were 2348 days or 56352 hours that passed since the beginning.

In that time 310007 posts were sent and this gives us the stat of posts/hour at 5.501259937535491.

We can see how the activity on this forum has been decreasing.
Analysing the standard model of activity we can propose that for this forum to become more active there would have to be a general swing in either content or population.

I don't suggest that lower than average activity is bad, after all there can be only as much said about different things as there is without repeating patterns too heavily.

This gives interesting glimpse on the role this forum plays and on general area of culture that it creates.

It would be interesting to see posts/day: most, least and average, least being when the system was up. Post average by day of week, by month, hi, lo and average, for each year since inception.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

Didn't realize there was a place you could upload them without an account. Thanks Doc.

If anyone wants more stats, ask for them and I'll try and do them, as I haven't got the motivation to think of new interesting ones right now.

Posts/Thread for each subforum

http://imgur.com/zz8Arzc,cHsGZnC

The same, excluding the elysium.

http://imgur.com/zz8Arzc,cHsGZnC#1

I think there may have been an error.
The two images are identical.

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The stats indicate immortality has been achieved.

 

[BigApplePi]

Another interesting statistic which I'd love to see but which I'm sure is too difficult would be to see posts rates by poster by day during their life on the Forum. My guess is posters begin slowly, build up to a peak and then peter out ... like a Bell curve. But each poster would have a different pattern. Too bad this can't be done.

 

[Jennywocky]

Another interesting statistic which I'd love to see but which I'm sure is too difficult would be to see posts rates by poster by day during their life on the Forum. My guess is posters begin slowly, build up to a peak and then peter out ... like a Bell curve. But each poster would have a different pattern. Too bad this can't be done.

Why wouldn't it be possible?

You have a unique identifier (poster name), and the date range to use (Join Date / First Post Date <-> Current Date), and each post has a datestamp on it.

probably would have to run it for each poster of interest separately though, otherwise you'd have a lot of output.

 

[Coolydudey]

To see the other image just click on second image at the top of the page somewhere.

 

[Ex-User (9062)]

To see the other image just click on second image at the top of the page somewhere.

Whoops. Thanks.