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Let’s take a look at how last year looks in terms of closing across the network. Please welcome stats that highlight how many questions were closed on different Stack Exchange sites in 2022.

The same data in CSV format. Data for 2021.

Site Asked Asked
And
Closed
Percent
Asked
And
Closed
All
Closed
Duplicates
Closed
Duplicates
Reopened
Off-Topic
Closed
Off-Topic
Reopened
Unclear
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Unclear
Reopened
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Broad
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Too Broad
Reopened
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Opinion
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Reopened
Network Engineering 2,259 1,570 69.5% 1,584 102 3 1,219 13 229 47 15 0 19 0
Interpersonal Skills 314 210 66.88% 212 2 0 149 4 42 1 3 1 16 0
English Language and Usage 8,102 5,144 63.49% 5,475 918 75 3,428 224 517 64 77 9 535 53
Medical Sciences 942 540 57.32% 583 17 0 518 17 22 1 10 0 16 1
Meta Stack Exchange 7,149 3,990 55.81% 4,586 1,073 45 3,398 34 95 14 11 1 9 3
Stack Overflow em Português 25,226 13,519 53.59% 14,135 368 19 12,460 151 1,084 20 124 0 99 3
Chemistry 5,182 2,640 50.95% 2,682 269 9 1,060 53 1,155 62 148 7 50 4
Software Engineering 3,835 1,866 48.66% 1,900 54 1 914 9 280 11 426 16 226 15
Language Learning 174 84 48.28% 85 1 0 78 3 2 0 1 0 3 0
Music Fans 254 108 42.52% 1,157 0 0 1,149 2 0 0 1 0 7 0
Psychology and Neuroscience 757 304 40.16% 346 41 2 152 1 38 1 50 1 65 1
History 1,290 499 38.68% 506 23 1 205 6 132 14 64 6 82 2
Information Security 4,678 1,774 37.92% 1,818 260 4 1,126 15 278 8 33 2 121 3
Webmasters 1,803 673 37.33% 700 167 6 347 6 97 17 47 7 42 0
Sound Design 334 123 36.83% 144 8 1 116 0 10 1 4 0 6 0
Politics 2,326 817 35.12% 834 95 12 487 84 82 17 26 6 144 26
Anime and Manga 706 247 34.99% 952 22 0 869 15 14 1 12 1 35 2
Academia 3,923 1,340 34.16% 1,388 346 4 799 16 113 10 58 4 72 5
Movies and TV 1,219 407 33.39% 410 34 0 221 6 68 7 17 3 70 1
Worldbuilding 3,878 1,281 33.03% 1,308 112 6 448 30 307 23 217 14 224 13
Physical Fitness 464 148 31.9% 170 22 1 109 1 23 2 4 2 12 2
Skeptics 593 188 31.7% 190 8 0 124 5 27 5 19 3 12 2
Quantitative Finance 2,471 769 31.12% 788 67 1 504 6 136 6 41 1 40 0
Physics 27,974 8,618 30.81% 8,876 1,603 70 4,597 106 1,964 147 412 53 300 16
Lifehacks 178 54 30.34% 54 4 0 38 0 8 0 3 0 1 0
Arduino 2,044 603 29.5% 671 60 3 279 10 236 17 78 6 18 1
Biology 2,066 595 28.8% 605 76 1 320 7 102 7 44 1 63 0
The Workplace 1,742 494 28.36% 495 33 10 348 14 32 5 12 0 70 2
Music: Practice and Theory 1,890 534 28.25% 609 143 9 267 6 92 5 39 3 68 1
Code Review 5,055 1,386 27.42% 1,426 21 1 1,293 40 109 5 2 0 1 0
Project Management 332 88 26.51% 94 0 0 51 0 20 0 3 0 20 0
Islam 1,650 435 26.36% 491 229 0 117 0 86 2 24 1 35 0
Drupal Answers 2,988 770 25.77% 979 109 3 221 5 546 8 64 3 39 0
Russian Language 199 51 25.63% 51 3 0 37 3 9 1 2 0 0 0
Computer Science Educators 111 28 25.23% 28 0 0 24 0 2 0 0 0 2 0
Code Golf 996 250 25.1% 306 64 9 117 7 119 25 5 2 1 0
Parenting 262 65 24.81% 69 8 0 40 2 7 0 3 0 11 2
Linguistics 1,070 257 24.02% 262 19 0 153 5 47 1 19 1 24 0
WordPress Development 7,334 1,718 23.43% 1,782 36 1 1,504 9 143 2 48 1 51 0
Christianity 1,790 418 23.35% 435 102 10 183 14 59 1 34 3 57 6
Geographic Information Systems 16,462 3,836 23.3% 4,319 435 36 1,907 144 1,025 94 771 127 181 7
Hardware Recommendations 584 136 23.29% 139 4 0 113 3 14 3 5 0 3 0
Role-playing Games 2,575 597 23.18% 651 258 70 87 13 156 59 49 16 101 22
Aviation 2,020 468 23.17% 480 100 4 168 5 128 13 35 1 49 4
Artificial Intelligence 2,971 686 23.09% 805 31 1 319 2 285 5 123 3 47 0
Pets 465 105 22.58% 105 35 0 30 0 29 0 3 0 8 0
Electrical Engineering 20,323 4,532 22.3% 4,583 318 14 1,747 72 1,661 109 589 21 268 13
Travel 2,838 624 21.99% 634 207 5 254 18 99 10 21 1 53 3
Arqade 3,148 688 21.86% 1,038 428 9 310 3 221 6 17 1 62 4
Personal Finance and Money 2,655 577 21.73% 591 96 4 274 2 79 1 34 0 108 0
Biblical Hermeneutics 1,796 389 21.66% 419 92 6 215 15 55 6 15 3 42 5
Sports 457 98 21.44% 102 30 0 32 5 14 1 9 1 17 1
Salesforce 15,023 3,214 21.39% 3,263 582 9 1,984 10 575 2 32 0 90 1
Mi Yodeya 2,232 477 21.37% 491 197 4 175 10 55 9 27 1 37 4
Freelancing 80 17 21.25% 18 2 0 11 0 1 0 0 0 4 0
Seasoned Advice 1,122 232 20.68% 243 97 3 70 4 29 5 2 0 45 3
Philosophy 2,354 485 20.6% 504 34 2 252 4 131 1 35 2 52 3
Cross Validated 26,845 5,531 20.6% 6,628 1,290 57 2,319 78 2,650 164 294 25 75 6
Software Quality Assurance and Testing 578 119 20.59% 123 5 0 28 0 61 2 10 0 19 0
Stack Apps 225 46 20.44% 52 13 0 32 0 7 0 0 0 0 0
Mathematics 148,729 29,933 20.13% 31,658 7,078 238 20,121 427 3,720 50 510 17 229 4
Mathematica 7,888 1,580 20.03% 1,628 253 4 1,147 18 206 3 12 0 10 0
Windows Phone 10 2 20.0% 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arts and Crafts 245 49 20.0% 53 1 0 29 4 19 5 2 1 2 0
Mathematics Educators 317 63 19.87% 65 4 0 41 2 10 0 4 0 6 0
Web Applications 3,454 682 19.75% 707 86 0 426 3 161 2 24 1 10 0
English Language Learners 10,262 1,999 19.48% 2,102 261 3 1,365 40 308 15 56 5 112 1
Retrocomputing 706 136 19.26% 142 13 1 75 9 21 1 17 3 16 3
Internet of Things 240 46 19.17% 47 1 0 11 0 20 0 11 0 4 0
Open Source 496 94 18.95% 97 46 2 37 0 8 0 0 0 6 0
Robotics 684 129 18.86% 151 2 0 45 1 26 1 19 1 59 0
Cryptography 3,088 582 18.85% 595 90 3 394 18 76 9 22 2 13 0
Science Fiction and Fantasy 4,872 909 18.66% 1,012 447 20 236 23 128 35 65 24 136 18
Monero 219 40 18.26% 40 38 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Genealogy and Family History 165 30 18.18% 31 14 0 6 0 7 1 4 0 0 0
Bricks 350 63 18.0% 65 20 1 6 0 32 3 3 0 4 0
Woodworking 360 64 17.78% 71 8 1 37 2 12 0 6 1 8 1
The Great Outdoors 227 40 17.62% 44 7 0 25 2 9 1 1 0 2 0
Sitecore 1,452 255 17.56% 262 79 1 57 1 105 11 7 0 14 0
Android Enthusiasts 3,417 595 17.41% 988 262 10 358 21 343 18 20 1 5 0
Astronomy 1,564 267 17.07% 274 73 3 74 2 90 7 13 0 24 3
Bitcoin 2,363 402 17.01% 453 132 4 241 9 60 0 8 0 12 0
Writing 1,101 187 16.98% 194 17 0 134 1 20 3 11 1 12 0
MathOverflow 15,211 2,555 16.8% 2,582 44 1 2,305 14 183 2 24 1 26 5
Space Exploration 1,460 244 16.71% 257 60 1 87 1 52 1 21 2 37 2
Stack Overflow на русском 71,823 11,925 16.6% 12,184 1,828 47 5,846 127 2,172 34 1,400 11 938 2
Board and Card Games 598 99 16.56% 103 51 2 19 0 20 8 5 0 8 0
User Experience 1,298 215 16.56% 235 26 0 131 1 43 1 6 0 29 0
Mythology and Folklore 121 20 16.53% 21 3 0 7 0 5 0 5 1 1 1
Stack Overflow 2,360,129 387,977 16.44% 408,890 133,521 3,685 120,892 1,484 89,456 1,172 51,340 551 13,681 125
Japanese Language 2,429 394 16.22% 407 142 7 204 3 39 1 7 0 15 1
Puzzling 1,825 296 16.22% 312 48 1 223 10 26 2 10 1 5 0
Blender 18,849 3,002 15.93% 3,107 1,156 53 497 8 1,230 136 124 9 100 3
Ask Ubuntu 34,054 5,413 15.9% 6,515 2,882 68 2,317 54 1,043 27 88 7 185 9
German Language 1,112 176 15.83% 181 50 4 85 7 31 6 7 1 8 0
Home Improvement 8,307 1,310 15.77% 1,530 128 4 509 12 549 20 154 15 190 6
Chess 793 125 15.76% 142 31 2 17 0 31 7 25 6 38 7
Super User 32,556 5,074 15.59% 5,223 720 31 2,757 52 1,327 44 135 5 284 5
Poker 119 18 15.13% 19 15 1 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Photography 913 137 15.01% 142 43 0 70 2 13 2 5 2 11 0
Veganism and Vegetarianism 61 9 14.75% 11 2 0 4 0 1 0 3 0 1 0
Raspberry Pi 2,767 400 14.46% 432 43 0 279 7 79 9 15 0 16 1
Stack Overflow en español 41,491 5,861 14.13% 6,009 361 5 1,798 53 3,096 48 210 4 544 3
Matter Modeling 945 130 13.76% 198 16 0 17 1 159 5 6 0 0 0
Ask Different 8,967 1,210 13.49% 1,356 442 20 422 26 367 64 52 15 73 4
Game Development 3,141 404 12.86% 503 85 3 250 12 94 3 40 2 34 0
Earth Science 646 83 12.85% 86 8 0 51 1 18 1 5 0 4 0
Computational Science 941 119 12.65% 128 7 0 67 0 46 2 3 0 5 0
Law 4,421 547 12.37% 556 105 9 294 22 101 8 24 3 32 4
Area 51 Discussions 97 12 12.37% 13 6 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Engineering 2,297 283 12.32% 304 11 0 99 0 125 2 31 0 38 0
TeX - LaTeX 19,512 2,382 12.21% 2,967 1,350 42 575 5 981 35 29 1 32 2
Community Building 25 3 12.0% 4 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Amateur Radio 477 57 11.95% 58 7 1 30 0 15 1 4 1 2 0
Theoretical Computer Science 940 112 11.91% 116 1 0 108 0 5 0 1 0 1 0
Spanish Language 410 48 11.71% 50 9 0 36 1 4 0 1 0 0 0
Portuguese Language 143 16 11.19% 19 12 0 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
Stellar 134 15 11.19% 16 4 1 5 0 4 1 3 0 0 0
Computer Science 4,665 520 11.15% 546 100 0 260 1 101 7 78 7 7 0
Buddhism 469 47 10.02% 50 20 3 17 4 9 0 3 2 1 0
French Language 964 96 9.96% 98 37 2 41 1 8 0 3 0 9 0
Server Fault 17,393 1,729 9.94% 1,792 172 0 1,286 4 245 2 43 0 46 0
Graphic Design 1,953 191 9.78% 196 38 5 84 1 23 2 34 0 17 0
Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair 1,440 140 9.72% 144 12 1 77 1 38 0 2 1 15 0
Literature 843 81 9.61% 82 4 0 42 1 19 2 6 0 11 1
Substrate and Polkadot 3,072 292 9.51% 292 84 0 33 1 119 8 39 1 17 1
Chinese Language and Usage 943 88 9.33% 95 20 0 48 6 14 4 2 0 11 1
History of Science and Mathematics 506 47 9.29% 47 10 0 17 0 9 0 7 0 4 0
Signal Processing 2,607 239 9.17% 244 47 2 94 4 81 17 18 3 4 0
Drones and Model Aircraft 143 13 9.09% 14 2 0 4 0 6 0 0 0 2 0
Bicycles 1,457 132 9.06% 134 31 0 67 2 29 1 0 0 7 0
Economics 2,354 210 8.92% 214 17 0 138 0 37 0 8 0 14 0
Database Administrators 7,811 688 8.81% 750 135 4 328 4 235 7 31 0 21 1
DevOps 1,204 106 8.8% 112 3 0 48 1 38 4 15 1 8 0
Constructed Languages 93 8 8.6% 8 0 0 4 1 3 0 1 0 0 0
Solana 2,454 210 8.56% 210 28 1 40 0 82 1 34 0 26 1
Unix and Linux 21,134 1,797 8.5% 2,008 769 37 486 16 602 11 58 2 93 6
Video Production 737 62 8.41% 66 5 0 43 1 6 0 6 1 6 0
Latin Language 756 63 8.33% 65 16 4 10 2 32 10 5 1 2 0
Computer Graphics 469 39 8.32% 40 0 0 22 0 8 0 2 0 8 0
Vi and Vim 1,590 127 7.99% 142 49 1 62 1 23 1 5 0 3 1
Software Recommendations 1,870 148 7.91% 151 3 0 130 7 16 0 2 0 0 0
Ebooks 64 5 7.81% 5 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Martial Arts 169 13 7.69% 13 4 0 3 0 1 0 2 1 3 0
Bioinformatics 983 74 7.53% 84 5 1 20 2 34 4 9 0 16 0
Ask Patents 293 21 7.17% 22 0 0 18 0 4 0 0 0 0 0
Quantum Computing 2,532 166 6.56% 172 31 1 59 2 56 2 18 1 8 0
スタック・オーバーフロー 3,758 243 6.47% 245 11 0 174 22 51 3 6 1 3 0
Coffee 93 6 6.45% 6 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 3 0
Sustainable Living 155 10 6.45% 11 2 0 4 0 1 0 2 0 2 0
Ethereum 12,584 801 6.37% 864 384 9 271 4 165 0 16 0 28 1
Data Science 6,675 411 6.16% 470 24 0 242 1 136 1 42 0 26 0
Iota 33 2 6.06% 3 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Hinduism 1,937 117 6.04% 121 69 0 33 0 1 0 1 0 17 0
Ukrainian Language 100 6 6.0% 6 2 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Expatriates 607 36 5.93% 36 9 0 18 1 0 0 5 0 4 0
Italian Language 155 9 5.81% 9 2 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3D Printing 765 43 5.62% 46 11 0 15 1 14 0 4 0 2 0
Proof Assistants 589 33 5.6% 33 5 0 14 3 6 3 6 1 2 1
Reverse Engineering 900 50 5.56% 56 7 0 24 1 21 1 0 0 4 0
Beer, Wine and Spirits 39 2 5.13% 3 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Esperanto Language 45 2 4.44% 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
Open Data 390 17 4.36% 21 2 0 12 1 2 0 3 0 2 0
SharePoint 3,112 123 3.95% 127 9 0 47 0 59 2 7 1 5 0
Operations Research 980 38 3.88% 39 7 0 18 0 12 0 2 0 0 0
EOS.IO 106 4 3.77% 6 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Tezos 322 11 3.42% 11 6 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Tridion 147 5 3.4% 5 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Русский язык 1,339 44 3.29% 44 0 0 32 0 3 0 2 0 7 0
Gardening and Landscaping 902 28 3.1% 28 2 0 6 0 16 0 3 0 1 0
Cardano 1,514 46 3.04% 48 3 0 16 0 11 0 9 0 9 0
Bioacoustics 355 10 2.82% 10 0 0 3 0 1 0 6 0 0 0
Korean Language 143 4 2.8% 5 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 0
Joomla 439 12 2.73% 13 1 0 5 0 7 1 0 0 0 0
Emacs 2,649 67 2.53% 68 32 0 9 0 24 0 1 0 2 0
ExpressionEngine® Answers 58 1 1.72% 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Magento 5,612 43 0.77% 55 14 0 16 0 23 1 0 0 2 0
Tor 251 1 0.4% 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Craft CMS 761 3 0.39% 4 2 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
elementary OS 370 1 0.27% 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
CS50 782 2 0.26% 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Notes

  • This counts questions asked in 2022 and questions closed in 2022 - the AskedAndClosed and PctAskedAndClosed columns reflect questions that were both asked and closed in 2022, while the remaining columns total up all questions closed in 2022 - even those asked in prior years.
  • Reopen numbers also include questions asked in years prior - but limit themselves to questions that were closed in 2022 and then also reopened in 2022.
  • 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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    Thanks for the stats! I just noticed the table still uses "Too broad" instead of "Needs more focus" (updated since 2020, also "Unclear" is now "Needs detail or clarity", though it's still similar wording). Is it deliberate? (also, apparently the 2021 stats still uses "Too broad" too) Jan 26, 2023 at 13:19
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    @MetaAndrewT. Thanks for noticing it! If you do not mind, please go ahead and change the names. I used the ones from the previous year. Jan 26, 2023 at 13:59
  • Where do migrations fit?
    – Laurel
    Jan 26, 2023 at 15:12
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    @Laurel I believe that they go to the "off-topic" category. Jan 26, 2023 at 15:29
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    I think for next year it would be good to have a count of how many questions were successfully migrated. There's a big difference between questions that were closed (preventing any future answers) and questions that were closed but can (and maybe were) answered elsewhere. So far this year (ie, January) ELU for example had 60+ attempted migrations so the numbers are quite significant.
    – Laurel
    Jan 26, 2023 at 15:40
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    @ElementsinSpace comments asking to add the [featured] tag should feature some arguments... I like these posts, they're a nice set of statistics, but they're irrelevant to 99% of the visitors of the network. They've never been featured before, as far as I know.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Jan 28, 2023 at 11:21
  • @MetaAndrewT and Nicolas Chabanovsky - maybe add the fact that the names are changed in the Notes? It does seem like something potentially confusing if you're a newer user or from the future. Jan 28, 2023 at 15:04

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