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Re: Growth
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Thu, 2 Nov 2000 03:22:51 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Scott Arthur writes:
I get the general impression that the number of registered users / members
is growing day-by-day. However, I get no real feeling that there are more
(in terms of numbers) people posting here or that the total numbers of posts
is dramatically rising. Is there any data which demonstrates growth in these
tems?

I have looked in admin.statistics, but that really just gives a 'snapshot'.

Just curious.


Average Newsgroup Message Traffic
=================================

Mon/Year Days Posts  Average Number of Posts Per Day
                          0        100       200       300       400       500
Sep 1998  30    n/a  n/a  (not yet being tracked)       |         |         |
Oct 1998  31    n/a  n/a  (not yet being tracked)       |         |         |
Nov 1998  30    n/a  n/a  (not yet being tracked)       |         |         |
Dec 1998  31    n/a  n/a  (not yet being tracked)       |         |         |
Jan 1999  31    n/a  n/a  (not yet being tracked)       |         |         |
Feb 1999  19   3489  184  |-----------------o |         |         |         |
Mar 1999  31   5195  168  |----------------o  |         |         |         |
Apr 1999  30   4756  159  |---------------o   |         |         |         |
May 1999  31   6179  199  |-------------------o         |         |         |
Jun 1999  30   4908  164  |---------------o   |         |         |         |
Jul 1999  31   7056  228  |----------------------o      |         |         |
Aug 1999  31   6666  215  |---------------------o       |         |         |
Sep 1999  30  14125* 471  |----------------------------------------------o  |
Oct 1999  31   9275  299  |-----------------------------o         |         |
Nov 1999  30  10979  366  |------------------------------------o  |         |
Dec 1999  31  13539  437  |-------------------------------------------o     |
Jan 2000  31  13439  434  |------------------------------------------o      |
Feb 2000  29  12265  423  |-----------------------------------------o       |
Mar 2000  31  13935  450  |--------------------------------------------o    |
Apr 2000  30  10741  358  |-----------------------------------o   |         |
May 2000  31   9590  309  |------------------------------o        |         |
Jun 2000  30  11067  369  |------------------------------------o  |         |
Jul 2000  31  12410  400  |---------------------------------------o         |
Aug 2000  31  11225  362  |-----------------------------------o   |         |
Sep 2000  30  10071  336  |---------------------------------o     |         |
Oct 2000  31  12675  409  |----------------------------------------o        |

* HandyBoard mailing list archive folded in (6000+ messages)


New News Posting Applications
=============================

Mon/Year  New Unique News-Posting Applications
               0        100       200       300       400
Oct 1998  244  |-----------------------o     |         |
Nov 1998  127  |------------o      |         |         |
Dec 1998  139  |-------------o     |         |         |
Jan 1999  180  |-----------------o |         |         |
Feb 1999  144  |-------------o     |         |         |
Mar 1999  129  |------------o      |         |         |
Apr 1999  107  |----------o        |         |         |
May 1999  129  |------------o      |         |         |
Jun 1999   93  |--------o|         |         |         |
Jul 1999  131  |------------o      |         |         |
Aug 1999  161  |---------------o   |         |         |
Sep 1999  153  |--------------o    |         |         |
Oct 1999  209  |--------------------o        |         |
Nov 1999  284  |---------------------------o |         |
Dec 1999  285  |---------------------------o |         |
Jan 2000  337  |---------------------------------o     |
Feb 2000  225  |----------------------o      |         |
Mar 2000  239  |-----------------------o     |         |
Apr 2000  209  |--------------------o        |         |
May 2000  177  |-----------------o |         |         |
Jun 2000  227  |----------------------o      |         |
Jul 2000  187  |------------------o|         |         |
Aug 2000  190  |------------------o|         |         |
Sep 2000  156  |---------------o   |         |         |
Oct 2000  185  |------------------o|         |         |


New Members
===========

Mon/Year  New Members
              0        20        40        60        80        100       120
Nov 1999  82  |----------------------------------------o        |         |
Dec 1999  65  |--------------------------------o      |         |         |
Jan 2000  52  |-------------------------o   |         |         |         |
Feb 2000  53  |--------------------------o  |         |         |         |
Mar 2000  32  |---------------o   |         |         |         |         |
Apr 2000  37  |------------------o|         |         |         |         |
May 2000  36  |-----------------o |         |         |         |         |
Jun 2000  27  |-------------o     |         |         |         |         |
Jul 2000  46  |----------------------o      |         |         |         |
Aug 2000  44  |---------------------o       |         |         |         |
Sep 2000  67  |---------------------------------o     |         |         |
Oct 2000  92  |---------------------------------------------o   |         |


--Todd



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Growth
 
This is very interesting when compared with (URL) I never did get around to working on that more. I should update it with more recent data.... (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Growth
 
(...) I am a little surprised. Posting traffic over the last 12 months is actually slightly down - in terms of trend. This is almost all due to the Xmas rush last year I expect. Statistics are great things, if I extend the downward trend, I can (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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I get the general impression that the number of registered users / members is growing day-by-day. However, I get no real feeling that there are more (in terms of numbers) people posting here or that the total numbers of posts is dramatically rising. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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