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  1. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    New user registrations per year (valid users only)

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    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    User status

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    • Total registrations up until the end of 2018: 15,628
    • Valid: 5,509 (35.3%) - can post
    • Invalid: 1,093 (7.0%) - can't post (account disabled, email bounced, account not activated)
    • Banned: 226 (1.4%) - problematic user, spammer
    • Removed: 8,800 (56.3%) - old invalid or banned users who have never posted and who have been purged from the database
     
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    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    Current user status

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    • Total current users: 6,828
    • Active users: 4,077 (59.7%) - can post and has posted
    • Never posted: 1,432 (21.0%) - can post, but never has
    • Email bounced: 604 (8.8%) - email has bounced back as undeliverable
    • Incomplete registration: 247 (3.6%) - user has not confirmed their email address after registering
    • Spammer: 134 (2.0%) - user was banned for spamming
    • Never logged in: 126 (1.8%) - user registered, but did not confirm their email address and never logged in again
    • Banned: 92 (1.3%) - user was banned for causing problems
    • Disabled: 77 (1.1%) - user requested we disable their account
    • Email changed: 39 (0.6%) - user changed their email address, but never confirmed
     
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    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    Active users per day

    Number of users who have logged in each day

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    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    Posting users per day

    Number of users who have made at least one post each day

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    Posting users per month

    Number of users who have posted at least once each month

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    Posting users per year

    Number of users who have posted at least once each year

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    Posts per user per day

    "On average, how many posts do users make per day?"

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    Posts per user per month

    "On average, how many posts do users make per month?"

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    Posts per user per year

    "On average, how many posts do users make per year?"

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    Uploading users per day

    Number of users who have uploaded media each day

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    Uploading users per month

    Number of users who have uploaded media each month

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    Uploading users per year

    Number of users who have uploaded media each year

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    Uploads per user per day

    "On average, how many media uploads does each member make per day (out of those who have uploaded media that day) ?"

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    Uploads per user per month

    "On average, how many media uploads does each member make per month (out of those who have uploaded media that month) ?"

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    Uploads per user per year

    "On average, how many media uploads does each member make per year (out of those who have uploaded media that year) ?"

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    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    Posts by day of the week

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    Seems like Tuesdays or Mondays are our most talkative.

    Visits by day of the week (all visitors, both members and guests)

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    More people visit the site on Mondays than any other day of the week.

    Note that this visits by day of week report is based on Sydney time (GMT+10), so it is a bit skewed compared to our actual visitors. I have created a new report for GMT which I will use in future - but it will take some time to populate the data.
     
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    Media uploads by day of the week

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    Saturdays and Sundays seem to dominate here - with Mondays a distant 3rd.
     
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    Media comments by day of the week

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    Fairly unsurprisingly, more photos uploaded on Saturday and Sunday = more comments made on Sunday and Monday.
     
  20. Simon Hampel

    Simon Hampel Administrator Staff Member 20+ year member

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    Posts by time of day (GMT)

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    Note that all times are taken as GMT (ie London time), regardless of where the user who posted is posting from. While it would be nice to adjust for local times of posters - it is practically impossible to do in any reliable way.

    Anyway, the chart is kind of interesting given the differences in time zones around the world. I would have expected a much flatter graph - with the west coast of the US 8 hours behind GMT and the east coast 5 hours behind.

    Given the majority of our users come from the UK and from the US, I expected the peak posting times to be longer.

    For example, the middle of the peak period in this chart is 9pm GMT/London time, which is understandable - many people jump on the forum in the evening to post. However, 9pm GMT is 4pm in New York and 1pm in Los Angeles (and 8am in Sydney!).

    With such a spread, I would have expected far less of a peak.


    Visits by time of day (all visitors - both members and guests ... GMT+10)

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    The above chart uses Sydney time (GMT+10), and thus is about 10 hours out from where is should be. The chart shows peak visitors at around 6am Sydney time, which is approximately 8pm GMT - which makes more sense. I have set up a new view in Google Analytics to show this data based on GMT, but it will take some time to populate that data.
     
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