Thought some of you might find this interesting. This is a monthly breakdown of some VB statistics for the year. 2002 statistics are in green, 2003 statistics are in blue, 2004 statistics are in red, 2005 statistics are in purple, 2006 statistics are in green, 2007 statistics are in blue, 2008 statistics are in red .

New Members: 359 / 2802 / 3885 / 4929 / 10396 / 9648

Jan: 40 / 79 / 247 / 490 / 569 / 675 / 613
Feb: 40 / 58 / 236 / 330 / 782 / 666 / 449
Mar: 19 / 51 / 291 / 431 / 1142 / 723 / 635
Apr: 21 / 580 / 328 / 366 / 1032 / 534 / 464
May: 25 / 341 / 330 / 328 / 1100 / 612 / 687
Jun: 27 / 321 / 322 / 334 / 1181 / 897 / 899
Jul: 22 / 321 / 358 / 411 / 1103 / 981 / 850
Aug: 46 / 91 / 398 / 545 / 846 / 811 / 896
Sep: 28 / 233 / 300 / 404 / 777 / 338
Oct: 37 / 289 / 291 / 507 / 671 / 817
Nov: 32 / 262 / 337 / 419 / 619 / 1137
Dec: 22 / 176 / 447 / 364 / 574 / 1457

New Threads: 2190 / 9694 / 16178 / 16919 / 16516 / 18607

Jan: 148 / 324 / 1108 / 1689 / 1308 / 3817 / 1454
Feb: 137 / 292 / 894 / 1479 / 1357 / 1449 / 1341
Mar: 144 / 314 / 1021 / 1774 / 1437 / 1515 / 1304
Apr: 118 / 1065 / 1102 / 1598 / 1503 / 1465 / 1229
May: 149 / 1144 / 1142 / 1528 / 1465 / 1281 / 1374
Jun: 132 / 1086 / 1141 / 1241 / 1504 / 1257 / 1517
Jul: 115 / 1097 / 1542 / 1307 / 1550 / 1308 / 1496
Aug: 256 / 434 / 1665 / 1475 / 1304 / 1118 / 1574
Sep: 237 / 832 / 1419 / 1256 / 1363 / 1132
Oct: 222 / 992 / 2167 / 1259 / 1280 / 1353
Nov: 219 / 1067 / 1450 / 1196 / 1260 / 1454
Dec: 313 / 1047 / 1527 / 1117 / 1185 / 1458

New Posts: 40024 / 270522 / 340674 / 438193 / 333388 / 347771

Jan: 2205 / 8104 / 26222 / 37765 / 25329 / 28430 / 33586
Feb: 2322 / 7681 / 20785 / 32674 / 25183 / 28809 / 33200
Mar: 2561 / 6407 / 19917 / 41693 / 31498 / 28888 / 29745
Apr: 1952 / 30213 / 23505 / 63290 / 30506 / 28291 / 31724
May: 2829 / 30042 / 23548 / 52960 / 27389 / 31757 / 26651
Jun: 2796 / 32311 / 26649 / 36586 / 30065 / 26759 / 25970
Jul: 3640 / 28984 / 38881 / 32854 / 34870 / 28246 / 29228
Aug: 4036 / 10528 / 39624 / 38806 / 22988 / 26549 / 34251
Sep: 4336 / 22318 / 30985 / 27837 / 23300 / 24401
Oct: 3145 / 31171 / 25944 / 24424 / 28466 / 32272
Nov: 3619 / 34728 / 29250 / 25654 / 28733 / 33967
Dec: 6583 / 25061 / 35364 / 23650 / 25061 / 29402

Due to the upgrade the Aug. 2003 statistics only reflect a partial month.

Interesting stat...

Last year from the first of the year through Feb. 17th we had 64 new members.

This year from the first of the year through Feb. 17th we have 108 new members. :)

and now a whole new smilie :vebo: :vebo: :vebo:

its..... peanut butter jelly time.. peanut butter jelly time... :)

I feel like I should make a scatterplot of those figures... perhaps I should just do my statistics homework instead, eh?

Originally posted by VeggieMonster
its..... peanut butter jelly time.. peanut butter jelly time... :)

hehehe.. so i'm not the only one who immediately thought of that

Originally posted by skylark
I feel like I should make a scatterplot of those figures... perhaps I should just do my statistics homework instead, eh?
I want to do a chi-square.

Originally posted by Thalia
I want to do a chi-square.

Ahhhhh!! Get thee behind me, Satan! :p

What's a chi-square?

I found this. It's Chi Square Tutorial...

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/ballc/webtools/web_chi_tut.html#overview

Updated to include March 2003 statistics. I'm sure we'll see quite a jump for April. ;)

I really want to see the April stats... I have an odd feeling that you'll have the biggest numbers then... I wonder why. ;)

That will be funny to see April. We'll look back and say what's this crazy outlier. :D

How many contributing members are there ?

(or is that privileged information?)

Oh heavens, April will drag out that tail and make such a skew...

interesting stats. Thanks for posting them, Michael!

I am very intrested in this months stats too. :)

Any chance of getting stats of people who join and then post once and never return, and also rough percentages of people who return once a week, twice a week, more, etc? Working in the web industry we're always interested in measuring the success of a website, and returning users are one of the best indicators of success for a community site.

Well, I just cleared out everyone who had been a member over one year and never posted. If memory serves me correctly there were about 180 of them.

As of right now we have 999 members, 498 of them have either posted once or not at all.

As for how often people visit, I don't really have any way of knowing right now.

So you have 501 members who have posted more than once. Out of that you can assume about 50% post regularly, so you must have about 250 active members.

So 1 out of evey 4 people who took the time to register to the site have made the decision to continue contributing to it. That's pretty bloody good if you ask me.

Updated to add the long-awaited April stats!

Yeah, those new stats are pretty much what I expected. 580 new members... I was thinking it was more like 200. :/

Not only old Vegewbers, but many others seemed to wonder in this past month.

Maybe all the closet omnis who've been wanting to join took this opportunity, hoping they wouldn't be noticed. :eek:

It's definitely a possibility... :eek: