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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.... (26 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 (...) (26 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Growth
 
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. (...) (26 years ago, 1-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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