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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

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NEXT: you take over the world?

Heh, oops; I've started doing these regularly (every day or two), but they're supposed to be private entries. Missed htis time. *G*

And someone beat me to the taking over the world comment.

:-D

I don't think I could take seeing them every day or two, but once in a while I do find that sort f thing interesting (I guess "every three, four months" fits well in my mental image of once in a while).

This is awesome. Sharing is caring. :D

FWIW, these stats and many others are also available here, though I suspect the URL is subject to change at some point as part of the general de-.bml-ification of the site.

I have a gut feeling that the apparent spike in 30-year-olds is inaccurate and fear the worst (not implying any management malpractice) about how it might have come about, observing that LJ has a spike that's several times as prevalent and several times as suspicious.

iirc The spike at age 30 is a bug.

The link does work without the .bml, too -- all of our URLs work both with and without.

(There's also http://www.dreamwidth.org/stats/site which is our spiffy new and improved version, including paid account percentages and breakdowns on activity by account type, etc etc ... but the cron job that generats those isn't running right now; Mark decommisioned the job server and spread the tasks out to other machines, and a cronjob got accidentally missed...)

As for the 30-year-olds, yeah, I'm not sure WTF is up with that. At all.

Do you remember if they ever figured out what was causing it on LJ? I don't ... I always assumed it was spambots.

If they figured it out, I never heard the reason.

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?

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.)

Edited (hit post too soon!) 2010-05-29 12:20 (UTC)

You know, even if they're supposed to be private entries, this was kind of neat to see on my reading page. Maybe make one public once every other week or so? Because I saw it and I grinned big time.

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! :)

+1

I love hearing how our place here is growing.

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.

I wonder if it's as simple as 1980 being a popular choice for "I don't want to disclose my age." (In other words, the same reason why there's a spike at 39/40 and at 109.) You might be able to find out by seeing how many of those have registered birthdays of January 1st, although I suspect there are a lot of people who make up a year but enter their actual birthday because they want the friend birthday reminder thing to work.

I'd be happy to see this once a month or so. Or maybe included in news posts from time to time (quarterly?).

I join the chorus saying that seeing this every once in a while would be kind of neat--I saw this and started grinning like a loon. Way to go, you and everyone else on the team. :D

Once or twice a month would be interesting, so we can all keep tabs of the development easy peasy :)

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.)

Even given the reasons (some of which I knew), that's a lot of accounts that are neither active, nor have ever posted an entry. On the other hand, I have one of those; very early on, I wasn't sure which username I wanted, so registered two.

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