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[denise]

Total Accounts: 519128
That are active in some way: 24288
That have ever posted an entry: 46800
That have posted an entry in last 30 days: 15278
That have posted an entry in the last 7 days: 9808
That have posted an entry in the last 24 hours: 4202

Comments

[beet]

Interesting.

I am betting a lot of users (like me) are readers and commenters rather than posters. Is that covered under "active in some way?" Or is there any way to see how many accounts have posted comments and/or check their reading page vs. created an account, posted once, and have it just sitting there?

[denise]

The stats don't break down like that specifically, but "active in some way" includes (I think) anyone who's logged in, loaded a page while logged in, posted, or commented within the last 30 days. The rest of the stats run on "posting an entry", but the "active in some way" judges the level of involvement with some kind of content on the site ... so, in this case, you can see that the difference between "active in some way" and "posted an entry in the last 30 days" is something like 10,000 accounts, which captures the demographic of the people who just read/comment and don't post as much.

(I also think "posted an entry" doesn't include "in communities", so some of that 10k will be people who never post in their own accounts but who are active in communities.)

[beet]

Oh! I'm surprised about the community exclusion. Though now that I am thinking about it, those would be harder to tally. Very interesting!

I, for one, am glad you mistakenly posted this publicly. So, thanks! :)

[shadowspar]

Nowadays, it seems as though some folks make a point of signing up for any new service that comes along whether or not they're going to use it, mostly so that they can stake out their desired username. I wonder how many of the "never posted" accounts that accounts for.

[cleverthylacine]

To be totally fair, some of that is due to prevent trolls from registering one's username and setting up accounts to impersonate you/make people think that you're out there being evil yourself. I know at least one person who registered her LJ name on DW because she has had a problem with trolls setting up accounts designed to impersonate her. (She's not my friend, so that's all I'm going to say.)