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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2017: a year in spam
Last year, I posted 2016: a year in spam. Since that was pretty well-received, here’s the 2017 version. Ladies, gentlemen, aliens, and everyone in between: more statistics about spam that you never ...
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Three-vote close/reopen test - results
Three-vote close and reopen has been something I've been thinking about for ... a really long time. I'm really happy to finally be able to present the results of this test to you all. This post is ...
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How much more bandwidth is eaten up by SE in 2020 compared to 2012?
Many years ago, I asked the question How much bandwidth does SE eat up?
Nick Craver gave a detailed answer, and the short of it was a whopping 60TB of data per month!
I'm wondering how has SE's ...
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Is there any data on how many users' IP addresses never look at their questions again?
Looking at a few random questions on Parenting, I noticed that many one-question users are never seen later than a few minutes after their questions were posted (confusingly, due to how the "seen" ...
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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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2019: a year in closing
Closing and reopening questions is a very small part of what goes on around this network... But it gets a lot of attention, and always has. Particularly over the past year, as we've tested some pretty ...
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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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Does the featured site get measurably more traffic?
Is there any significant increase in traffic to the featured-site of any particular day? How large is this effect?
For people unfamiliar with the featured site: it's a graduated site randomly chosen ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in [Stack Exchange land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time)...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange ...
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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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The numbers for the HNQ list
This is a follow up to Limit the number of questions per site in the Hot Network Questions list
Between 2017-06-06 00:00:02 and 2017-07-20 00:00:10, I have collected 1032 data points, one for each ...
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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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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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No "2018: A year in moderation" here?
Shog9 has been posting posts titled "2018: a year in moderation" in all the child-metas (e.g., here's the post on MSO) with some interesting statistics on how many various moderation tasks are ...
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Users who can't write good posts ≠ users who want to write good posts
I recently came across this post, which states (emphasis mine):
... The problem that became evident was that people who want to learn how to write a good question and people who can't write a good ...
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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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What percentage of new users who have their questions closed actually visit /help/closed-questions?
Currently, when a question is closed, it gets a banner that includes the line:
If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the help center, please edit the question.
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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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Getting a clear picture on Area 51 beta statistics
This is what the Area 51 stats look like for a certain site I care about:
I've circled the two stats that are "treadmill stats"—they don't build over time, but require constant work to maintain....
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Has there been a significant change of activity in the 29 old beta sites that graduated in August 2019 since the graduation?
In August 2019, 29 of the oldest beta sites graduated (in name at least) in an attempt to "mean the end of the monolith we currently refer to as "Graduation" in favor of a well-defined set of small ...
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Clicks per day is skewed
With the delay that happened with activating the community-ads on meta sites, something unfortunate happened: the clicks per day metric on the stats page is completely skewed, since it's apparently ...
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Separate "invalid flags" in the flag statistics
As per the discussion on Why do “Invalid Flag” flags get disputed?, the "helpful"/"disputed" resolution of "invalid flag" flags is giving limited or zero value on whether the "invalid flag" flag was ...
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Could we see the number of times an ad was actually served?
Each community-ads post links to a stats page, where we get to see a number of "metrics" including:
Score / number of net votes on the ad post
Creation date
Clicks per day (which is skewed) / total ...
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Per site stats related to association bonus
I would like to get some statistics to help me better understand the role of association bonus at different sites.
For a given site, I would like to know:
How many users were granted bonus based on ...
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Why are election statistics only shown to moderators during the nomination phase?
When an election finishes, you can see a report with some voter statistics:
However, today I discovered that this information is also shown to ♦ moderators during an ongoing election:
I'm not sure ...
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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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Updated stats on browsers used on SE
I was wondering yesterday what fraction of SE visitors use Safari, but it turned out that the easily-discoverable resources,
What are the browser and resolution stats for SO users?
User agent stats ...
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How many users have changed their default Sort By?
I am interested in knowing how many users on Programming Puzzles and Code Golf change their default sorting preferences for answers. More specifically, I want to know what those sorting preferences ...
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Split the community and Community User statistics in "Year in Moderation" posts
In the annual statistics posted on Meta Stack Exchange (e.g. here) as well as each per-site Meta, moderation actions are aggregated into "Moderators" and "Community" columns, with the second caveated ...
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Can we have some statistics on suggested edit reviews?
There are two (possibly three) ways to review suggested edits:
via the review queues
by visiting a Q&A page where the edit was made, and clicking on the edit (1) link underneath a post
authors of ...
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What is the largest Stack Exchange website that got shut down?
Several Stack Exchange websites got shut down over time. What is the largest Stack Exchange website that got shut down? I'm open to the definition of "largest", one way to define is with the ...
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How many automatic voting reversals happen on a daily basis?
Purely out of curiosity and interest, on average, how many automatic voting reversals happen on a daily basis? Is this a metric moderators or CMs can see?
I'm not sure if there's any other situations ...
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Proportion of unsuccessful mod candidates who rapidly reduce their site involvement?
It often happens online that candidates for mod positions who fail to get elected either leave a site right away or reduce their involvement radically. This suggests that a main reason for their ...
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What percentage of users use the /questions page to view questions?
There are two primary ways to view questions:
The questions link (clicking the "questions")
The homepage link (clicking the site name icon or from the base url)
My question is what the total page ...
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Has anyone tried to calculate the community health index (CHI) for any Stack Exchange website?
A few days ago, while looking for metrics that can be used to measure online communities, I found out that a company, Lithium Technologies, proposed a new index, Community Health Index (CHI).
...we ...
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How often is the duplicate target link clicked?
Can we get some stats about how often is the duplicate target link clicked on questions marked as a duplicate? I'm particularly interested in duplicate questions with answers, because on those without ...
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How many votes and flags are cast by users preferring particular answer order (active / oldest / votes)?
Answers sort order "sticks", meaning that system stores it somehow, so that it is possible to get statistics related to its usage.
I would like to know how many (percentage) of votes and flags are ...
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How well do answers bubble up?
For context, I mostly use sites of "medium" size and traffic, like unix.SE - it's not clear whether that makes a difference to this question.
From experience, it seems that the effect of good answers ...
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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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Are there recent stats available for browser usage, screen size, etc. for Stack Exchange site users?
I have noticed that the Stack Exchange layout is being changed from time to time and that it seems to get worse for the desktop users, a fact also mentioned in one of the top comments for the post ...
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Statistics about people who have recovered from their question ban
I've asked this question on Stack Overflow in Russian, but our CM told me to ask this question here.
I've found only a few similar posts:
Can we have some statistics about users who could overcome ...
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Network-wide site comparison statistics
It seems to me that different sites on the Stack Exchange network are very different when it comes to statistics such as average views per question, reputation per user, badges per user, etc. I would ...
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Linkify "Migration Statistics" for >10k users
I was recently looking at the Migration Stats for Math.SE (10k view). (I wanted to see what other sites thought of as good/bad migrations.)
I like the statistics view since it shows me a rough idea ...
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What's the proportion of hits for the tag suggestion system?
I'm curious because I'm sure that askers (seasoned or not) depend greatly on the tag suggestions for tagging their questions, so I want to know the proportion of times that users select a tag from the ...
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What is the fastest Area 51 proposal to reach the Beta stage?
The site proposal Proof Assistants has gone from Definition to completing Commitment in just over three days. Has any proposal (whether it managed through Beta or not) achieved this in a shorter ...
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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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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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Can we see an aggregate count of our upvotes/downvotes separately, for the Questions and Answers?
Can we see the total number of upvotes/downvotes we have casted, separately for the questions and answers?
Something like:
Hey, user! you have:
upvoted 423 Questions;
upvoted 3432 Answers;
downvoted ...
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1-year-old questions removed by Roomba: what happened if they are re-asked?
When a question is one-year-old, has received 0 upvote, 0 answer, fewer than 2 comments and not many visitors, it gets automatically removed.
Has anyone looked at what happened if such questions are ...