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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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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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 can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site?
How can I see the average and median question scores for a given tag on a given SE site? E.g., what is the average and median score for the questions that have the tag bug on Meta.SE (I took this ...
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Basic statistics about any Stack Exchange site
Is there any place with statisics about each Stack Exchange site? For example, I would like to know when the chemistry site was started and how many questions were asked and answered every year.
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Examples of ChatGPT being right and wrong on Stack Exchange?
Some sites have prohibited the use of ChatGPT on their site, with the rationale that it produces "mostly wrong answers". I've not seen examples myself of answers of ChatGPT being flat out ...
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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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How have the ratio of large to small draft saves and the number of users who post at least 3 answers per week developed since the start of June?
In a recent statistics post, the company reported on some measures they regard as relevant in the current AI usage debate.
One is the ratio of large draft saves to small draft saves, which is ...
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Have voting patterns changed significantly after the recent change in voting button arrow style?
Two weeks ago on May 30, a change in the vote button style went live on the network. Instead of large triangles, there are now smaller triangles with larger circles around them and changed color ...
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Ranking users with most edits and close votes on a specific tag
A while back I asked this question about writing a query which would rank users based on their number of close votes on posts related to a specific tag: Table of users ranked based on their number of ...
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Number of network sites and the Stack Exchange about page
The About page says, "Comprising 173 Q&A communities". It's known that the number of communities shown varies in different places. As of May 2023, so many sites don't make sense to ...
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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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Is there publicly available build history of the sites?
I got a comment on my recent question about the reason why there are no recent builds on SE sites:
Historically, the company has its annual meeting/get-together in April.
I understood that comment ...
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Is the bounty system effective?
For years, people have been able to spend their hard-earned imaginary Internet points to add "bounties" to questions in order to attract more attention to them. (Because, really, "attention" is the ...
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Tag Analysis to know technology review by users
Is it possible to get analysis report on tags to know technology review. e.g.
1) Which technology has more questions (that has +5 vote up , atleast 1 from reputed person).
2) Which technology has ...
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We're working on a new stat to help convey the reach of your posts here
We've got a new statistic on the shiny new Profile Page Prototype. It's not perfect yet. And we did a pretty crap job of explaining what it's all about! Let's talk.
What you do here isn't just about ...
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Do the statistics shown on Area 51 include closed questions?
Does Area 51 also include closed questions in its statistics?
For example, is the number of answers per question reported for a site in beta influenced by closed questions, or are those questions not ...
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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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Site health dashboard (for graduated and beta sites alike)
Related:
How were the guidelines for a healthy site determined
Shutting down recurring community self-evaluations
Executive summary
Could the devs please make a weekly updatable dashboard with ...
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How were the guidelines for a healthy site determined?
When visiting analytics for beta sites, one can view different guidelines on how each proposal is doing based on the following "healthy" guidelines:
15 questions asked per day
90% of questions ...
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Are there any observable effects of a "strike"?
Plenty of users were talking about "striking" lately, down to having a link to the first Meta question about the recent events in their profile like:
I didn't call it that way, but went "pausing ...
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Are other sites (besides MSE) growing inactive?
Ever since Everything That Happened with Stack Exchange, it's understandable that many users are hesitant to get re-involved on SE. It's understandable that many users are deleting their own accounts,...
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How exactly do people (accidentally) end up here on MSE? [duplicate]
On a daily basis, MSE gets a few (sometimes more than a few) off-topic questions that are posted here by accident. This is when a user intends to post the question on a specific site on the network ...
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What percentage of users across SE "follow" posts?
A recent announcement included figures of how many use a certain feature. That made me wonder about the follow-post feature, because to me and to others the way it's implemented is not user-friendly, ...
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How often do visitors land on "Page not found" pages due to deleted questions?
From time to time, questions are deleted. This results in "Page not found" pages. Are there any public stats on how often people land on "Page not found" pages?
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Make the Users > Voters able to show the previous period (i.e. year 2022)
According to Glorfindel's answer to How to get the historical data in users Tab it's not possible to use SEDE to get historical voters data due to votes being anonymized.
Please add a way in Users >...
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What percentage of closed questions that get submitted for review are eventually re-opened?
Just curious, what percentage of questions that get submitted (and/or re-submitted) for review by the post owner get eventually reopened after the "significant edit" option was added to the ...
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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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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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Will we get a "2022: a year in moderation & closing" post this year? [duplicate]
For the last year (2021) stats, the network-wide "a year in closing" and per-site "a year in moderation" posts were posted on the 3rd and 12th of January 2022:
2021: a year in ...
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How can I get all users' total reputation across all sites?
I like how Area 51 shows users by their total reputation across all sites, as an indication of the user's general familiarity with the Stack Exchange format. Is it possible to get a list of all (or a ...
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What's the Data Explorer query to get the latest data that Stack Overflow Trends shows?
Stack Overflow Trends shows the percentage of questions with a certain tag. Here's an example for Java IDEs. On Jan 7, 2023, this link produces this graph:
So VS Code is at 0.8%, and IntelliJ is ...
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Are there some public statistics on how long it takes to process flags on each SE site?
Are there some public statistics on how long it takes to process flags on each SE site?
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How many normal and secret hats have there been in past Winter Bashes?
Does Winter Bash have the same number of normal and secret hats every year? Is there a breakdown of normal and secret hats featured in past Winter Bashes?
Having such a list could perhaps allow us to ...
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Is Stack Overflow a business success?
I'm interested to know if Stack Overflow earns money.
If yes, how? Any statistics? Is it a good business model?
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On the sites where suggested tags are enabled, were they actually useful?
What is the experience with the "suggested tags" feature on the sites which actually use it? Did it help in some way?
I understand that this is something which is difficult to quantify in ...
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Is there any internal research on the randomness of moderator elections?
Moderator election seems like a useful tool. I am wondering, though, what percentage of users are taking the elections seriously.
Users are incentivised to participate in the elections, since they get ...
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How much are tag warnings used?
Although I'm reasonably experienced on Stack Exchange (8+ years of activity, 40 sites with 500+ reputation, 247k total rep) and have been a diamond moderator on one site for some 5 years, today I saw ...
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How many SE sites are there? What about an "N sites and counting..." message at the top of stackexchange.com/sites?
In this recent site meta answer I wrote
There are almost 200 SE sites to choose from! But they vary in question rate and temperament.
I actually took the time to count them the first time I used ...
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What question has the most answers on it?
Of all the questions on SE, what question has the highest number of answers on it?
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Which sites have the most prominent top users?
I was looking at the top users of Chess Stack Exchange and noticed the top user @BrianTowers has more than twice the reputation (79k) of the next user @PhishMaster (32.1k). Are there more Stack ...
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Highest reputation moderators?
Highest-rep users on the network are easy enough to find. What about highest-rep moderators? We all know that moderation ability doesn't necessarily correlate with reputation, and moderators on ...
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How many suggested edits have been overturned and by whom?
For more than a year and half, authors and moderators have been able to override suggested edits. Well, what better excuse than being near new years' to get some data. So, how many times have the ...
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Is 7 Socratic badges the current per-site record?
I'm a big fan of the Socratic badge because in my experience, asking 100 upvoted questions on separate days is hard: it requires long-term and consistent dedication, and you learn a substantial amount ...
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Add column headers for "total score of { }" and "{ } answer(s) provided / question(s) asked" in the Top Users page
After reading Can we see user reputation by tag?, I wanted to see how I fared on my primary language tag on Stack Overflow.
I cannot make any sense of https://stackoverflow.com/tags/php/topusers.
I'm ...
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Podcast Frequency
It seemed, at least to me, that the Stack Overflow podcast is being published less often than it used to be. With minor exceptions, the podcast used to come out every Wednesday like clockwork. Though ...
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Why has there been such a huge drop in "new visits" since May 9th, 2022, across multiple sites?
The Data:
The following graphs are from today, starting from when the public beta started, and with data points plotted "weekly" rather than "daily".
Quantum Computing:
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Statistics are not aligned properly on the SE 'About' page
The grid items on the Stack Overflow Stats section of the Stack Exchange 'About' page are not aligned properly.
Currently it looks like this:
Would it be an idea to change it to look like this?
Is ...
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Tag statistics - count and number of watchers
Where can I see a table of popular tags ordered by their number of watchers?
I ask because I believe a tag's popularity should be judged by its number of watchers rather than number of uses. Some ...
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How can I query SEDE to see the number of questions for a specific tag per year?
Having in mind a specific tag from Stack Overflow (i.e. python). Is there any query to make in SEDE which could provide the number of questions and answers posted per year in the specific tag?
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Can we get statistics about the effect of the war in Ukraine on Stack Exchange communities? [closed]
Simple questions:
Is there increased/reduced traffic on communities such as "Russian Language" or the "Russian Stack Overflow"?
Did you observe (coordinated) efforts of spreading ...