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I am thrilled to share that this year we are continuing a tradition started by Shog9 five years ago. Please welcome stats that highlight how many questions were closed on different Stack Exchange sites in 2020:

Site Asked Asked
And
Closed
Percent
Asked
And
Closed
All
Closed
Duplicates
Closed
Duplicates
Reopened
Off-Topic
Closed
Off-Topic
Reopened
Unclear
Closed
Unclear
Reopened
Too
Broad
Closed
Too Broad
Reopened
Opinion
Based
Closed
Opinion
Based
Reopened
Stack Overflow 3,077,287 504,944 16.41% 521,241 151,348 4,872 144,942 3,192 118,557 3,579 86,831 1,746 19,563 277
Super User 51,316 9,415 18.35% 9,660 1,189 36 5,065 82 2,239 93 677 16 490 4
Server Fault 26,301 4,064 15.45% 4,322 285 6 2,982 15 769 6 209 1 77 2
Stack Apps 204 26 12.75% 26 1 0 23 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Seasoned Advice 2,340 510 21.79% 527 210 4 145 5 69 5 31 2 72 4
Home Improvement 10,754 857 7.97% 1,016 106 4 457 5 310 6 79 2 64 1
Game Development 5,326 797 14.96% 876 150 7 461 21 80 3 106 3 79 5
Arqade 6,795 1,848 27.2% 2,109 765 13 604 13 601 19 72 6 67 4
Geographic Information Systems 19,727 3,788 19.2% 4,090 591 28 1,602 89 1,052 90 616 96 229 9
Photography 1,737 330 19.0% 344 92 0 165 2 60 2 4 0 23 1
Statistical Analysis 36,765 7,111 19.34% 7,553 1,419 36 3,109 94 2,557 239 404 29 64 4
Web Applications 4,757 675 14.19% 719 130 0 390 2 174 7 17 0 8 0
Pro Webmasters 3,226 1,318 40.86% 1,374 227 5 617 11 302 53 162 13 66 4
Apple 14,341 2,108 14.7% 2,235 863 38 604 54 556 102 101 34 111 10
Theoretical Computer Science 1,323 331 25.02% 335 5 0 304 0 14 0 10 0 2 0
English Language & Usage 15,862 6,245 39.37% 6,534 1,214 23 3,975 44 673 15 74 2 598 11
Personal Finance & Money 5,665 1,161 20.49% 1,200 228 2 635 12 133 3 77 1 127 5
Role-playing Games 5,195 1,339 25.77% 1,437 485 100 191 24 420 172 130 40 211 38
TeX - LaTeX 25,865 2,828 10.93% 3,151 1,469 52 743 9 802 23 80 4 57 2
Ask Ubuntu 56,898 10,134 17.81% 11,225 4,955 57 3,988 94 1,785 44 189 5 308 6
Unix & Linux 30,855 3,169 10.27% 3,297 1,187 38 740 5 966 21 196 4 208 1
WordPress 14,793 2,692 18.2% 2,824 91 0 2,425 13 173 3 94 1 41 2
Bicycles 2,429 273 11.24% 288 110 0 125 4 42 1 7 0 4 0
Software Engineering 7,039 2,029 28.83% 2,048 85 4 1,253 5 195 3 351 1 164 3
Android Enthusiasts 6,131 1,504 24.53% 1,595 321 11 963 23 259 17 40 2 12 1
Board & Card Games 1,118 223 19.95% 231 92 9 48 7 37 3 20 5 34 5
Physics 37,368 11,428 30.58% 11,773 2,087 50 6,687 49 2,075 63 539 27 385 10
Homebrewing 253 3 1.19% 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Information Security 8,645 3,335 38.58% 3,405 507 9 2,002 22 518 14 213 11 165 4
Writing 1,573 510 32.42% 522 69 0 354 2 34 0 21 0 44 0
Electrical Engineering 28,335 4,188 14.78% 4,295 377 4 2,150 44 1,021 32 579 9 168 3
Graphic Design 3,970 647 16.3% 664 124 4 284 2 104 1 114 0 38 0
Database Administrators 11,547 2,447 21.19% 2,763 345 10 1,096 11 885 25 328 8 109 1
Science Fiction & Fantasy 5,614 1,349 24.03% 1,497 668 36 348 35 174 32 101 19 206 27
Area 51 Discussions 234 11 4.7% 11 3 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Code Review 9,203 2,145 23.31% 2,172 18 1 1,961 33 181 3 3 0 9 0
Code Golf 1,234 427 34.6% 474 75 13 214 3 180 28 4 1 1 0
Quantitative Finance 4,231 639 15.1% 651 65 0 326 2 152 4 53 0 55 0
Project Management 613 133 21.7% 141 4 0 68 1 31 0 6 0 32 1
Skeptics 1,115 451 40.45% 456 34 2 294 34 68 25 36 8 24 3
Drupal Answers 5,345 1,082 20.24% 1,287 188 3 337 5 510 12 200 3 52 3
Physical Fitness 789 220 27.88% 231 20 1 170 8 19 0 8 0 14 1
Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair 2,460 313 12.72% 322 45 0 148 4 87 0 9 0 33 1
Parenting 448 118 26.34% 122 10 0 58 4 25 0 10 1 19 1
SharePoint 6,748 400 5.93% 404 47 0 90 1 209 13 44 4 14 0
Music: Practice & Theory 3,635 829 22.81% 939 206 5 391 9 127 7 66 2 149 1
Software Quality Assurance & Testing 1,393 356 25.56% 403 58 1 74 1 196 9 35 1 40 0
Mi Yodeya 2,871 692 24.1% 733 250 1 291 15 121 13 36 4 35 2
Astronomy 2,278 357 15.67% 373 150 1 128 15 54 1 20 1 21 0
German Language 1,507 358 23.76% 371 109 6 185 23 53 9 8 1 16 1
Japanese Language 3,292 744 22.6% 753 325 12 366 7 37 3 8 1 17 1
Gardening & Landscaping 2,225 60 2.7% 65 6 0 17 1 32 6 7 1 3 0
Philosophy 2,675 740 27.66% 755 72 0 347 1 175 5 56 0 105 1
Travel 3,269 1,216 37.2% 1,277 368 19 509 51 184 30 46 6 170 22
Cryptography 4,117 838 20.35% 863 125 5 587 12 82 2 45 1 24 0
Literature 1,340 148 11.04% 149 9 0 88 8 25 1 18 1 9 1
Signal Processing 4,273 461 10.79% 465 69 1 194 3 116 3 78 4 8 1
French Language 1,111 120 10.8% 123 54 2 53 1 9 0 5 0 2 0
Christianity 1,401 593 42.33% 648 70 10 339 22 82 9 55 4 102 5
Bitcoin 3,074 821 26.71% 998 193 3 614 3 105 6 32 2 54 0
Linguistics 1,566 413 26.37% 423 18 0 271 7 78 0 31 0 25 1
Biblical Hermeneutics 2,012 376 18.69% 389 57 4 204 11 59 2 17 3 52 6
Economics 3,427 793 23.14% 804 52 2 403 7 172 0 75 0 102 0
History 2,325 895 38.49% 921 39 2 475 18 163 9 109 6 135 6
Bricks 611 76 12.44% 81 33 0 9 0 32 2 4 0 3 0
Spanish Language 915 118 12.9% 126 44 0 60 2 13 0 6 0 3 0
Computational Science 1,412 166 11.76% 170 5 0 110 2 41 1 7 0 7 0
Movies & TV 2,409 755 31.34% 768 62 1 425 10 122 11 55 5 104 6
Chinese Language 1,489 143 9.6% 217 50 2 100 2 28 2 12 0 27 1
Biology 4,166 1,121 26.91% 1,156 111 4 602 21 187 5 65 3 191 3
Poker 165 32 19.39% 33 26 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 2 0
Mathematica 10,840 2,059 18.99% 2,143 384 12 1,441 19 285 9 22 0 11 1
Psychology & Neuroscience 1,144 370 32.34% 382 25 0 223 5 55 0 29 0 50 1
The Great Outdoors 341 31 9.09% 32 6 0 20 2 5 2 1 1 0 0
Martial Arts 222 28 12.61% 33 8 0 12 0 3 2 6 1 4 0
Sports 460 149 32.39% 156 22 0 68 3 28 3 12 1 26 3
Academia 5,710 2,122 37.16% 2,191 413 5 1,420 20 139 5 65 2 154 10
Computer Science 7,792 1,077 13.82% 1,099 175 5 628 6 214 12 68 1 14 0
The Workplace 3,802 959 25.22% 962 132 20 560 38 83 5 71 5 116 11
Windows Phone 31 7 22.58% 8 2 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
Chemistry 9,575 5,181 54.11% 5,242 513 8 2,690 71 1,559 70 375 21 105 2
Chess 1,383 221 15.98% 230 72 5 59 1 23 6 20 5 56 2
Raspberry Pi 5,277 871 16.51% 928 95 2 447 6 254 19 67 4 65 1
Russian Language 364 111 30.49% 113 12 2 68 3 25 6 2 1 6 1
Islam 2,832 726 25.64% 753 236 2 226 1 157 2 39 0 95 1
Salesforce 19,878 3,690 18.56% 3,741 903 20 1,770 24 845 7 100 2 123 3
Ask Patents 398 14 3.52% 14 3 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
User Experience 2,084 481 23.08% 505 30 0 248 0 92 1 34 2 101 0
Genealogy & Family History 358 61 17.04% 63 26 0 10 1 20 3 4 0 3 0
Robotics 923 150 16.25% 153 1 0 49 1 37 3 17 0 49 1
Politics 3,309 1,273 38.47% 1,313 180 11 613 105 175 20 108 26 237 46
Video Production 1,483 121 8.16% 122 16 0 67 0 19 0 6 0 14 0
Anime & Manga 1,274 457 35.87% 467 55 0 303 0 49 2 12 2 48 0
Magento 14,727 412 2.8% 430 49 0 99 0 241 6 20 0 21 1
English Language Learners 15,559 1,709 10.98% 1,797 402 7 1,047 29 226 7 68 1 54 0
Sustainable Living 234 27 11.54% 36 0 0 11 0 21 0 2 0 2 0
Tridion 363 5 1.38% 5 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Reverse Engineering 1,544 132 8.55% 136 7 1 55 0 60 0 4 0 10 0
Arduino 4,214 819 19.44% 830 135 1 280 1 279 9 111 4 25 0
Network Engineering 4,024 2,629 65.33% 2,673 160 0 2,072 9 264 17 136 5 41 1
Open Data 733 35 4.77% 44 18 0 11 0 12 0 1 0 2 0
Freelancing 162 31 19.14% 32 3 0 11 0 4 0 10 0 4 0
Blender 24,741 3,936 15.91% 4,086 2,258 84 455 8 961 98 223 23 189 6
MathOverflow 17,911 3,375 18.84% 3,396 65 2 3,053 20 208 1 45 2 25 1
Space Exploration 2,719 319 11.73% 324 89 1 113 16 48 3 40 2 34 4
Sound Design 768 241 31.38% 251 13 0 193 0 20 1 8 0 17 0
Tor 573 19 3.32% 27 6 0 1 0 17 0 0 0 3 0
Pets 973 153 15.72% 162 108 2 20 1 25 2 5 0 4 0
Amateur Radio 657 76 11.57% 78 11 1 36 0 19 6 7 2 5 1
Italian Language 422 25 5.92% 26 5 0 15 0 2 1 0 0 4 0
Stack Overflow em Português 36,571 18,150 49.63% 19,074 978 35 13,374 178 3,842 83 748 9 132 1
Aviation 3,290 891 27.08% 919 279 11 277 3 169 12 84 4 110 7
Ebooks 157 11 7.01% 11 1 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Beer, Wine & Spirits 94 13 13.83% 15 3 0 6 0 2 0 0 0 4 0
Software Recommendations 3,097 390 12.59% 410 10 0 318 14 76 10 5 1 1 1
CS50 2,448 20 0.82% 22 9 0 5 0 7 0 0 0 1 0
Expatriates 932 80 8.58% 88 25 1 21 0 16 1 7 0 19 0
Mathematics Educators 448 92 20.54% 93 4 0 59 0 14 0 6 0 10 0
Earth Science 800 178 22.25% 188 27 1 95 5 40 1 20 0 6 0
Joomla 584 26 4.45% 34 5 0 7 0 19 1 3 0 0 0
Data Science 10,555 2,193 20.78% 2,428 81 2 945 6 850 14 405 8 147 1
Puzzling 4,045 566 13.99% 575 121 5 378 38 55 7 13 2 8 0
Craft CMS 1,380 10 0.72% 11 5 0 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Buddhism 895 86 9.61% 90 25 5 44 7 10 4 4 2 7 1
Hinduism 2,062 481 23.33% 499 215 4 141 5 38 0 22 1 83 2
Community Building 44 7 15.91% 7 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Worldbuilding 5,368 1,765 32.88% 1,825 195 18 682 39 298 33 346 34 304 15
スタック・オーバーフロー (Japanese) 5,563 239 4.3% 246 23 0 122 9 86 1 7 0 8 0
Emacs 3,548 54 1.52% 60 36 1 10 1 7 0 1 0 6 0
History of Science & Mathematics 639 91 14.24% 91 16 0 36 0 11 0 10 1 18 1
Lifehacks 340 124 36.47% 129 18 0 109 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Engineering 2,990 494 16.52% 504 21 1 113 2 263 18 66 0 41 0
Coffee 149 6 4.03% 7 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0
Vi and Vim 2,419 176 7.28% 186 126 2 25 1 27 1 3 0 5 2
Music Fans 645 79 12.25% 107 10 0 74 2 5 0 7 1 11 0
Woodworking 505 39 7.72% 40 4 0 27 0 1 0 4 0 4 0
CiviCRM 1,619 14 0.86% 17 10 0 3 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
Medical Sciences 2,260 990 43.81% 1,062 38 0 835 34 70 3 22 2 97 6
Stack Overflow на русском 90,134 10,811 11.99% 11,013 1,843 37 4,715 93 2,787 47 727 19 941 6
Русский язык 1,712 231 13.49% 236 19 0 162 3 27 1 17 2 11 1
Mythology 209 16 7.66% 16 5 0 4 0 2 0 5 0 0 0
Law 4,892 757 15.47% 774 122 8 436 26 132 9 50 4 34 1
Open Source 858 157 18.3% 163 57 3 79 4 18 1 2 0 6 0
elementary OS 1,821 49 2.69% 54 26 1 13 0 6 0 6 0 3 0
Portuguese Language 326 31 9.51% 31 8 0 19 1 2 0 1 0 1 0
Computer Graphics 630 24 3.81% 25 0 0 19 0 3 0 0 0 3 0
Hardware Recommendations 1,132 598 52.83% 626 2 0 564 10 32 6 22 2 3 2
Stack Overflow en español 53,971 5,735 10.63% 5,951 673 13 2,137 53 1,483 26 565 9 1,093 12
3D Printing 1,122 139 12.39% 144 26 1 43 1 58 9 6 1 11 1
Ethereum 5,548 957 17.25% 996 146 0 243 3 431 2 146 1 30 0
Latin Language 791 23 2.91% 24 6 0 8 0 7 0 3 0 0 0
Language Learning 302 125 41.39% 127 2 0 103 2 5 0 10 1 7 0
Retrocomputing 1,200 191 15.92% 193 14 1 94 8 31 4 24 6 30 1
Arts & Crafts 344 94 27.33% 96 9 0 45 2 25 0 10 1 7 1
Korean Language 264 16 6.06% 16 4 0 3 0 7 1 2 0 0 0
Monero 353 29 8.22% 30 26 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Artificial Intelligence 3,913 608 15.54% 831 67 3 380 21 213 47 101 22 70 7
Esperanto Language 163 5 3.07% 5 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 0
Sitecore 1,970 404 20.51% 414 97 2 126 4 127 13 51 3 13 0
Internet of Things 372 88 23.66% 88 6 0 25 0 40 0 15 0 2 0
Vegetarianism 64 13 20.31% 16 3 0 7 0 3 0 2 0 1 0
Ukrainian Language 108 6 5.56% 6 1 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
DevOps 1,516 88 5.8% 90 8 0 41 0 25 0 8 0 8 0
Bioinformatics 1,490 129 8.66% 131 7 0 31 1 61 2 23 0 9 0
Computer Science Educators 186 49 26.34% 50 4 1 41 0 4 1 1 0 0 0
Interpersonal Skills 730 369 50.55% 370 15 0 163 2 104 4 23 1 65 5
Iota 56 3 5.36% 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Stellar 273 22 8.06% 22 2 0 7 0 6 0 5 1 2 0
Constructed Languages 85 14 16.47% 14 3 0 7 2 1 0 1 0 2 0
Quantum Computing 2,292 221 9.64% 225 55 0 35 2 81 1 31 2 23 1
EOS.IO 283 19 6.71% 20 5 0 10 1 3 0 2 1 0 0
Tezos 552 47 8.51% 51 16 0 22 0 11 0 2 0 0 0
Operations Research 977 40 4.09% 40 11 0 14 2 10 1 5 1 0 0
Drones and Model Aircraft 511 39 7.63% 39 6 0 12 2 9 2 9 2 3 0
Matter Modeling 973 73 7.5% 73 5 1 23 7 31 3 11 3 3 2
Mathematics 238,392 41,918 17.58% 44,468 101,41 240 20,680 333 12,600 239 642 17 405 1

Notes

  • This counts questions asked in 2020 and questions closed in 2020 - the AskedAndClosed and PctAskedAndClosed columns reflect questions that were both asked and closed in 2020, while the remaining columns total up all questions closed in 2020 - even those asked in prior years.
  • Reopen numbers also include questions asked in years prior - but limit themselves to questions that were closed in 2020 and then also reopened in 2020.
  • If a question was closed twice, it'll be counted twice.
  • If a question was reopened twice, it'll be counted twice.

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  • 2
    please consider editing to clarify whether deleted questions are taken into account or not
    – gnat
    Jan 18, 2021 at 16:38
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    @gnat It is all questions, including deleted ones. Jan 18, 2021 at 16:40
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    Can the table be sortable by column?
    – bad_coder
    Jan 18, 2021 at 16:47
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    +1 for sortable .. or at least sorting them alphabetically ;) if that's not an option.
    – tink
    Jan 18, 2021 at 16:52
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    @bad_coder: status-deferred. This has turned out to be one very, very long table though... @ Nicolas Last year, the information was also provided as a CSV, could that be an option this year too for those that want to sort?
    – Tinkeringbell Mod
    Jan 18, 2021 at 16:55
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    By the power of LibreOffice, the csv gist.github.com/braiam/a791c0932f777dbd12c69d1e53cedb4b
    – Braiam
    Jan 18, 2021 at 17:05
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    @Tinkeringbell Yes, it seems there is now way to sort by column currently. I updated the question. Thank you! Jan 18, 2021 at 17:12
  • 2
    Will the per-site detailed stats be updated too? (A year in moderation?)
    – Braiam
    Jan 18, 2021 at 17:42
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    @Braiam Good question! Yes, those posts will be out soon... Jan 18, 2021 at 17:43
  • 2
    @P.Mort. There's a scrollbar at the bottom of the table that lets you see them.
    – TylerH
    Jan 18, 2021 at 19:45
  • 3
    @TylerH But the table has the usual SO/SE problem that the vertical scrolling window can be taller than the screen, so you have to move down the screen, blindly scroll the window horizontally as far as maybe you wanted, then blindly scroll back up the screen to maybe the line you were at.
    – philipxy
    Jan 18, 2021 at 22:29
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    @philipxy Yes, I didn't say there was no problem at all with the layout (I agree with you there are some big problems--personally I think table support should include the abilty to have sticky/frozen headers, at the very least). Btw, you can also scroll left and right by single-clicking anywhere on the table and using the directional left- and right-arrow keys.
    – TylerH
    Jan 18, 2021 at 22:31
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    By the way, where did the names of the sites come from? A lot of these names are old names of sites whose names have since been revised or completely changed (e.g. "Cognitive Sciences", "LEGO", and "Materials Modeling"). Also, it's missing data for Mathematics. Jan 19, 2021 at 1:30
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    There's an internal instance of SEDE that suffers from the same issue as the public instance, @sonic: it has its own sites table with metadata on the databases it has imported, including name, which is never really updated. To get the proper site names for data like this, one must query the actual Sites table used by the system itself, which is slightly less convenient than just choosing the "run on all sites" option and letting SEDE fill it in. You can observe this same effect in some of my old posts when I was in a hurry.
    – Shog9
    Jan 19, 2021 at 3:46
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    @JohnOmielan Thank you for the notice. I took a look at Mathematics.SE separately and realised that my query threw an error for the site and it was silently skipped by the system. My colleagues helped me fix the error. The results for Mathematics.SE at the very bottom of the list. Jan 19, 2021 at 15:33

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Did you ever wonder how many Hot Network Questions end up being closed (because they turn out not to be suitable for the site, or to be a duplicate)? Since March 2019 that information is registered, so we can fire up the Stack Exchange Data Explorer engines to find out. SEDE doesn't include information about deleted questions, but those should be rare among HNQs.

Here is a query which shows the results on the SEDE website (so you can sort the columns); here is a version which produces the following table, sorted by percentage closed:

Site Number of HNQs Number of HNQs closed % of HNQs closed
StackExchange.English 585 110 18
StackExchange.Chemistry 470 74 15
StackExchange.Devops 7 1 14
StackExchange.Physics 1421 201 14
StackExchange.Workplace 531 72 13
StackExchange.Islam 33 4 12
StackExchange.Academia 895 115 12
StackExchange.Cogsci 9 1 11
StackExchange.Philosophy 128 13 10
StackExchange.Worldbuilding 1504 159 10
StackExchange.Travel 599 63 10
StackExchange.Ubuntu 640 59 9
StackOverflow 873 80 9
StackExchange.Musicfans 22 2 9
StackExchange.Judaism 365 35 9
StackExchange.Christianity 113 11 9
ServerFault 243 23 9
StackExchange.Esperanto 12 1 8
StackExchange.Interpersonal 56 5 8
StackExchange.Health 84 6 7
StackExchange.Money 503 36 7
StackExchange.Music 792 58 7
StackExchange.Security 314 23 7
StackExchange.Sqa 69 5 7
StackExchange.Stats 868 56 6
StackExchange.Garage 121 8 6
StackExchange.Datascience 187 12 6
StackExchange.Aviation 594 37 6
StackExchange.Electronics 1430 79 5
StackExchange.Engineering 90 5 5
StackExchange.Hinduism 87 5 5
StackExchange.Math 3315 190 5
StackExchange.Mathematica 1642 87 5
StackExchange.Scifi 1288 76 5
StackExchange.Programmers 167 10 5
StackExchange.Retrocomputing 536 27 5
StackExchange.Politics 676 38 5
StackExchange.Vi 334 17 5
StackExchange.WebApps 19 1 5
StackExchange.Unix 1060 63 5
StackExchange.Woodworking 18 1 5
StackExchange.Photography 204 10 4
StackExchange.Opensource 146 7 4
StackExchange.Parenting 71 3 4
StackExchange.Raspberrypi 128 6 4
StackExchange.History 313 13 4
StackExchange.Hermeneutics 324 16 4
StackExchange.German 239 10 4
StackExchange.Gis 811 27 3
StackExchange.Astronomy 347 11 3
StackExchange.Biology 133 5 3
StackExchange.Crafts 59 2 3
StackExchange.Hsm 55 2 3
StackExchange.Mathoverflow 1242 38 3
StackExchange.Pm 97 3 3
StackExchange.Ux 83 3 3
SuperUser 424 16 3
StackExchange.Writers 170 5 2
StackExchange.Salesforce 657 15 2
StackExchange.Skeptics 147 4 2
StackExchange.Rpg 1927 45 2
StackExchange.Puzzling 1642 34 2
StackExchange.Quant 239 5 2
StackExchange.Quantumcomputing 232 5 2
StackExchange.Matheducators 116 3 2
StackExchange.Movies 190 4 2
StackExchange.Linguistics 146 3 2
StackExchange.Magento 97 2 2
StackExchange.Martialarts 38 1 2
StackExchange.Codegolf 588 16 2
StackExchange.Blender 1044 27 2
StackExchange.Boardgames 279 8 2
StackExchange.3dprinting 47 1 2
StackExchange.Ai 131 3 2
StackExchange.Graphicdesign 180 4 2
StackExchange.Gaming 327 9 2
StackExchange.Ell 548 12 2
StackExchange.Diy 1014 25 2
StackExchange.Bioinformatics 49 1 2
StackExchange.Dba 348 10 2
StackExchange.Cooking 368 10 2
StackExchange.Drupal 121 3 2
StackExchange.Dsp 199 2 1
StackExchange.French 154 2 1
StackExchange.GameDev 67 1 1
StackExchange.Ethereum 100 1 1
StackExchange.Fitness 77 1 1
StackExchange.Apple 505 9 1
StackExchange.Bicycles 696 12 1
StackExchange.Bricks 217 3 1
StackExchange.Chess 567 10 1
StackExchange.Chinese 366 4 1
StackExchange.Codereview 914 15 1
StackExchange.Crypto 324 6 1
StackExchange.Materials 253 3 1
StackExchange.Japanese 507 9 1
StackExchange.Law 396 4 1
StackExchange.Genealogy 56 1 1
StackExchange.Sharepoint 57 1 1
StackExchange.Space 624 12 1
StackExchange.Spanish 101 2 1
StackExchange.Tex 2270 40 1
StackExchange.Pets 101 1 0
StackExchange.Or 313 1 0
StackExchange.Networkengineering 124 1 0
StackExchange.Gardening 136 1 0
StackExchange.Cs 292 1 0
StackExchange.Economics 240 1 0
StackExchange.Drones 90 0
StackExchange.Emacs 175 0
StackExchange.Elementaryos 0 0
StackExchange.Earthscience 53 0
StackExchange.Ebooks 0 0
StackExchange.Craftcms 46 0
StackExchange.Freelancing 2 0
StackExchange.Eosio 0 0
StackExchange.Expatriates 22 0
StackExchange.Expressionengine 0 0
StackExchange.Ham 100 0
StackExchange.Hardwarerecs 2 0
StackExchange.Cseducators 14 0
StackExchange.Cstheory 43 0
StackExchange.Coffee 2 0
StackExchange.Computergraphics 12 0
StackExchange.Conlang 7 0
StackExchange.Civicrm 83 0
StackExchange.Buddhism 206 0
StackExchange.Bitcoin 207 0
StackExchange.Audio 10 0
StackExchange.Beer 0 0
StackExchange.Arduino 140 0
StackApps 0 0
StackExchange.Android 75 0
StackExchange.Anime 28 0
StackExchange.Homebrew 8 0
StackExchange.Iot 8 0
StackExchange.Iota 1 0
StackExchange.Italian 22 0
StackExchange.Korean 14 0
StackExchange.Languagelearning 0 0
StackExchange.Latin 283 0
StackExchange.Lifehacks 16 0
StackExchange.Joomla 9 0
StackExchange.Literature 206 0
StackExchange.Meta 0 0
StackExchange.Moderators 1 0
StackExchange.Monero 8 0
StackExchange.Opendata 3 0
StackExchange.Mythology 2 0
StackExchange.Outdoors 43 0
StackExchange.Patents 7 0
StackExchange.Poker 4 0
StackExchange.Portuguese 22 0
StackExchange.Sitecore 39 0
StackExchange.Softwarerecs 9 0
StackExchange.Sound 2 0
StackExchange.Scicomp 69 0
StackExchange.Rus 0 0
StackExchange.Russian 76 0
StackExchange.Reverseengineering 22 0
StackExchange.Robotics 9 0
StackExchange.Tezos 28 0
StackExchange.Tor 0 0
StackExchange.Sports 23 0
StackExchange.Stellar 0 0
StackExchange.Sustainability 9 0
StackExchange.Webmasters 90 0
StackExchange.Windowsphone 0 0
StackExchange.Ukrainian 2 0
StackExchange.Tridion 28 0
StackExchange.Vegetarian 0 0
StackExchange.Wordpress 46 0
StackOverflow.Br 0 0
StackOverflow.Es 0 0
StackOverflow.Ja 0 0
StackOverflow.Ru 0 0
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  • 1
    I wonder how some questions have tons of HNQ's and others very little. It's definetly not the size of the sites that plays a role here, as the trilogy sites would be far more present by that definition.
    – Luuklag
    Jan 19, 2021 at 9:04
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    Great stats (and a cool query!) Thank you! Jan 19, 2021 at 9:15
  • 4
    For Spanish, 2/101 becomes 1%... heavy truncating (instead of rounding) going on there...
    – wimi
    Jan 19, 2021 at 9:25
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    Worth mentioning that questions from Stack Overflow, Software Engineering ("StackExchange.Programmers"), and The Workplace are subject to a penalty factor when calculating eligibility for HNQ, which means those questions require higher hotness scores than usual to be selected. SO would have had five times as many HNQs and the latter two would have had nearly twice as many HNQs had it not been for said penalty factors. (cc @Luuklag) Jan 19, 2021 at 9:26
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    Also, Mathematics has an artificially high number of Hot Network Questions produced because the moderators there have been removing questions from there very often (to the point where the majority of uses of this feature across the network are from that site), and whenever one gets removed, the system selects another to replace it. See their policy on removing questions from HNQ. Jan 19, 2021 at 9:35
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    @Luuklag Voting is the primary determinant, so sites with people who are more likely to vote tend to be higher than others. Having multiple answers is the secondary, so sites that have tend towards more answers per question tend to be on the list more. Sites that do both are the top-appearing sites.
    – Catija
    Jan 19, 2021 at 14:13
  • @SonictheCuriouserHedgehog for the sake of accuracy, due to misunderstanding of the implementors about how system works the penalty you mention has noticeable (and I would say overall detrimental) impact only on Stack Overflow. As for all other sites you can consider it absent. Workplace is a great example of implementors misunderstanding: its penalty was introduced to address case of 5 site questions in the hot list but even after getting it there were observed cases of 6-7-8 site questions in the list
    – gnat
    Jan 19, 2021 at 17:20
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    @Luuklag let me tell you a little dirty secret: as of now site presence there is basically a random mess without any sensible purpose / criteria. It made some sense in the past when the purpose of HNQ was to entertain Stack Overflow users but this purpose eventually has proven to be troublesome and they attempted to change it to something less slippery. However, these changes were abandoned midway and what we have for last ~two years can be most accurately qualified as under-construction chaos (not that I complain - it's anyway better than before)
    – gnat
    Jan 19, 2021 at 17:36
  • The stats would be more useful if it compared with the site overall close percentage! Jan 19, 2021 at 17:38
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    @kjetilbhalvorsen sure, but I don't have that. SEDE doesn't include deleted posts and many closed posts (with negative scores) are deleted.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Jan 19, 2021 at 17:45

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