Questions tagged [statistics]
Questions about sizes and other quantities of Stack Exchange sites, e.g. number of questions, GB/day transferred, etc.
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Are some SE web tracking beacons more important than others?
I'm starting to block lots of javascript trackers using the Ghostery browser extension for reasons.
Currently Stack Exchange seems to be using the following tracking technologies across multiple ...
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Can we have a (useless) statistics site?
Born out of curiosity arose the question "what was the fastest closing (on Meta)?", but unfortunately that question is not easy to answer. So another idea formed in my mind...can we get a site (like ...
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2017: a year in closing
Last year I posted some numbers on how many questions were closed on various sites around the network in the preceding year. This ended up being kinda handy to refer back to, so I'm gonna do it again: ...
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What is the impact of the recent changes to how Hot Network Questions work?
It's been almost two months since some major changes were made to the Hot Network Questions (HNQ), including a timeline event when a post hits HNQ, a (configurable) maximum number of questions each ...
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Some statistics from the Stack Overflow moderator election results [closed]
I did some number crunching on the moderator election results to see how closely they lined up with the rankings in the moderator nomination thread. I was going to post this as a comment on the SO ...
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Stack Exchange Community Statistics results: In which ways do unregistered users participate?
Source: In which ways do unregistered users participate?
Data source: February 6, 2012 NDA dump
The results here are only for StackOverflow, as it pretty well dominates the network. The final month ...
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How exactly are Area 51 beta stats calculated?
How, exactly, are all the Area 51 beta stats calculated?
For example:
This shows an answer ratio of 2.0. Yet, unless my query is broken, I couldn't get that number (even with today's freshly ...
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Stats on how attempts to circumvent Stack Overflow question blocks impact other sites
I would like to better understand how attempts to circumvent Stack Overflow question blocks impact other sites. I believe this can be estimated by finding out how many migrations to Stack Overflow ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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User agent stats that visit SE sites
Are there any stats on the user agents that visit the SE sites? So you can tell how many browsers/devices are used to visit SE sites.
Not only will this be interesting, but useful for stackapp ...
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Whats the most isolated SE site?
I'm curious about the social elements of Stack Exchange Sites and are looking for the Site that has the most isolated userbase. That is: The site with the most users that are not (active) on any other ...
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What percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text?
As a follow-up question of Stop image upload completion from stealing cursor focus, I wonder what percentage of images on SE have a meaningful alt-text.
Edit: by meaningful, I mean useful.
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Close Vote Funnel and Metrics
Since the recent change to Close-Votes the number of votes in the Close review queue has been growing dramatically. This has been discussed. Most of these discussions center around whether there is ...
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Is there any way to find which SE site is a gateway drug?
Are there any pages/dashboards showing cross-site statistics indicating new enrollments, how many users become active on multiple sites, perhaps broken down to show the first website that new users ...
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Vote datetime in datadump - No time?
In the votes table, the field CreationDate in the votes table only contains the date, with all the times set to 12:00:00 AM.
For some purporses, this information is needed to determine if there are ...
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How many hats did each site get?
Now that Winter Bash 2013 is over, I would love to know things like "how many of hat XYZ where awarded to people at ABC.SE?"
This information can help us (the communities at the various sites) gauge ...
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How to see the correctness of close/reopen votes?
How can I see the ratio of my previous close/reopen votes that were correct (i.e. resulted in the question being closed/reopened) or incorrect (i.e. resulted in the question left open/closed)?
I am ...
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What is the total number of hits/day for Stack Overflow?
As Stack Overflow grows day by day and a larger number of people use it daily, what is the total number of hits/day for Stack Overflow?
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Who raised the most helpful flags on Stack Overflow and Meta?
There is a lot of discussion around meta about how to raise a helpful flag and flags getting declined, but I wonder:
Who raised the largest number of helpful flags on Stack Overflow and Meta?
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Statistics about least exposed sites in Hot Network Questions
Related:
New Resources for Our Stack Exchange Network
What is the impact of the recent changes to how Hot Network Questions work?
I am looking for some statistics about 30-50 least exposed sites (...
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What question has had the most bounties on it?
Out of all the questions on SE, which has had the most bounties? I don't care about total amount of rep, just how many separate bounties there were.
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Answer turned to CW, votes pre-CW era doesn't count in tag specific stat
My understanding is that if an answer becomes CW (one way or another), original author gets to keep the votes pre-CW.
Does this also keep the pre-CW vote count for the tag-specific stat? It doesn't ...
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Save vote/visit stats of all questions and answers to a file so that one can show one's stats over time, not just the points?
Since this feature request was answered with a good workaround, I am rather asking here for any tool to get the stats of the votes and visits of questions and the votes of the answers as a file.
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How many SO users use the site per day?
There are roughly 4400 pages of users registered on the SO site. What is the rough average number of users that use the site per day?
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Is there a way to determine the average/weighted votes for a question by tag?
From my limited experience on the site it seems that questions in some categories attract more votes than others regardless of (my opinion of) their quality. This may be because there are many more ...
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Request for Last 30 Days Top Users ladder
Can we have an option to list users by their daily average reputation gain? It should just be a simple totalReputation / numOfDaysAsMember.
As a sub-request, can we get the exact number of days that ...
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2018: a year in spam
End-of-year posts seem to have become the tradition these days, so I'm back again with a third Year in Spam. Welcome back, folks, to another round of statistics you never needed to know.
All times/...
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What's your Jon Skeet Number? [closed]
I was bored this afternoon and decided to do something with the stack overflow data dump. I defined a "Jon Skeet" number, similar to the Erdos Number.
You can check your Jon Skeet Number here: http:/...
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How do I know if a beta Stack Exchange site is growing well?
There is a page for every beta SE site in area51 which indicates how healthy that specific site is in its beta phase. While this is a great feature, I think it would be more cool if there was a graph ...
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Why are stats not public information?
According to the accepted answer to this question, moderators are not allowed to disclose any visitor stats related to Stack Exchange sites or affiliated blogs:
Don't show the actual numbers, but ...
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Graph of tag popularity on stats page
I think it would be cool if we could see the growth of the number of question/amount of activity of various tags as a graph on the stats page.
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How many 20kers use the LQRQ?
Since "20K+ users can clear out low-quality reviews faster than normal users, as it takes only 3 votes (vs 6 recommendations) to delete posts.", I would like to know how many 20kers actually use ...
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What's responsible for the increase in the number of accounts created every week here on Meta Stack Exchange?
I've noticed that since the past year, the number of accounts created on Meta Stack Exchange every week has increased noticeably, and has sustained a much higher rate than it has sustained for the ...
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How many unsuccessful close votes have ever been cast?
On SO, how many unsuccessful close votes have ever been cast on questions with a total of at least two closevotes?
How are they distributed? (Dupe, Off-topic, NaRQ, ....)
How has their number and ...
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Why was this election (June 2012 for SO) even more unpopular?
In keeping with the question from the previous election-
Why was this election so (relatively) unpopular?
I thought the election process was certainly better- but the overall votes have dropped even ...
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Can we get tag voting stats in per-user overview form?
So we have a tag-centric view of tag voting stats, which is great. Can we get a user-centric view? Something organized like:
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Are there any other aggregate statistical measures that changed significantly with the advent of ChatGPT without a good explanation?
In a recent statistics post, the company reported on a large false positive detection rate of a specific GPT content detection tool when applied to old (pre 2023) content. Later in that post they ...
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Stack Exchange Community Statistics Results: How sportsmanlike are our users? [closed]
Question source: How sportsmanlike are our users?
Data sources: June 6, 2011 NDA dump; February 6, 2012 NDA dump
The results here are only for Stack Overflow.
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Can we have some statistics on the potential change in rate of comment flags?
With the changes in the Code of Conduct and all the publicity around being unwelcoming. It feels like we've been on an express train of changes.
I could be wrong, but I suspect there's been a rise in ...
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Why was the main criterion for graduation specifically chosen as 10 questions per day?
Prior to July 2015, site graduation was basically decided subjectively by the SE team, based on the site's Area 51 statistics and the capacity of the design team. From what I recall, it was basically ...
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Stats on suggested edits
Given the number of questions about the suggested edit system, I think we need some numbers…
On Stack overflow:
What is the mean time it takes for a suggested edit to be acted on?
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Stack Exchange Community Statistics results: What can we learn about migrations?
Data source: June, 2011 (23 SE sites, not including Meta sites)
Question source: What can we learn about migrations?
Where do migrations originate, and where do they end up?
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StackOverflow User Statistics [closed]
A few days ago I had a post that provided data scraped from the profile pages of over 23,000 StackOverflow users with the intention of having the community mine the database and produce interesting ...
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How many questions and answers are asked in one day at Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I was wondering how many question and answers are posted each day at Stack Overflow?
I have gone through how many questions are opened Daily on Stackoverflow?, but I didn't get a perfect answer.
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Gathering and Reporting SE Site Stats
Recently, I've built an application which accesses the SE API to gather certain statistics on each site. (The application gathers the data between 00:00:00UTC+00:00 and 00:05:00UTC+00:00 for the most ...
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What will happen to our previous review stats with the new review system, and how will it affect the badge? [duplicate]
The previous review stats had more options which you could complete on a post than the new review beta seems to provide: flagging, voting, and commenting. While I'm not sure if any of these three will ...
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Why is traffic on some of SE sites stagnant or in decline, and what is the destiny of such sites?
I noticed that some of the SE sites simply declined in terms of new posts in the last several years.
Is there any analysis of what these sites are, and reasons why that happened? What would be the ...
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Where can one find the total number of unique users in the entire Stack Exchange network?
I've looked on the Stack Exchange site and the Data Explorer, and I can't seem to find the number of unique users on the entire stack exchange system. It maybe that these numbers don't exist, but it ...
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Statistics: What is the average response time on StackOverflow?
What is the average time that passes between when the questions are posted and the answers which get accepted are posted? (not until the answer is accepted, but until the answer that got accepted was ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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