Occasionally (when I remember to) I take a snapshot of the site's statistics for future reference and comparison (in the future we'll have historical stats as well as present-day stats -- the data's there, there's just no pretty frontend for the comparisons yet). I was doing that tonight, and I figured, for shits and giggles it might be neat to present a "then and now" comparison.

Behind the cut: a table with comparison figures for three time periods, as close to one year apart as I have the data.

Statistic	1 Jun 2010	26 May 2011	15 Feb 2012
Total personal accounts	58,895	91,532	206,780
Total identity accounts	442,007	773,193	1,257,049
Total community accounts	N/A	12,208	20,250
Total feed accounts	N/A	15,445	21,010
Active in last 24h	5,739	4,535	16,655
Active in last 7d	15,292	11,337	44,334
Active in last 30d	26,482	22,374	113,889
Paid accounts (%/total, %/active users)	1,850 (0, 6)*	2,006 (1.9, 9.8)	7,221 (3.2, 9.9)
Premium accounts (%/total, %/active users)	765 (0, 2)*	657 (0.6, 3.2)	1,519 (0.7, 2.1)

* We only started reporting the paid account percentages down to tenths of a percent somewhere after 1 Jul 2010, so the numbers for 1 Jun are rounded to whole percentages.

So, there are more people active in the last 24 hours today than there were active in the last week on 1 Jun 2010 and more people active in the last 7d today than there were in the last 30d on 1 Jun 2010, and we have over four times the paid accounts and over twice the premium paid accounts today as we did two years ago. I do find it fascinating that the paid account percentages as taken across both the whole userbase and the active userbase have remained mostly the same, even as the raw numbers have grown by leaps and bounds!