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Re: Site statistics [message #664854 is a reply to message #661974] |
Tue, 08 August 2017 11:26 |
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Michel Cadot
Messages: 68641 Registered: March 2007 Location: Nanterre, France, http://...
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Forum statistics have been updated with the last quarter figures.
Sorry for the delay but I made some internal modifications to crunch the data:
1/ IP ranges allocated to countries are temporary so all along these almost 20 years they move and I had to reconstruct the IP database for the previous quarters and when not available I used the data from the closest quarter I have. An example is some IP ranges that were allocated to South Africa are now to Sudan, the consequence, if I have used the current database, is that the first users of this site were from Sudan, I think some would be surprised to know they are Sudaneses.
2/ Some IP are located to a whole continent and not a specific country and so are ignored for statistics about countries. In these cases I now set the country from the location of the greatest number of messages. For instance, John Watson registered with an IP located in Europe, no specific country, most of his messages are posted from United Kingdom so I located him in this country (but not his messages, messages that are clearly located in a country still belongs to this country).
3/ The IP database saw its format changed; from (simplifying) a "FromIP;toIP;country" format it has changed to a CIDR notation so I had to change the way I crunch it.
About the spammers:
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Re: Site statistics [message #667764 is a reply to message #667763] |
Sun, 14 January 2018 14:16 |
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Littlefoot
Messages: 21807 Registered: June 2005 Location: Croatia, Europe
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Thank you, Michel!
Tragically, almost 90% of members posted up to 3 messages (while almost 50% of registered members didn't post a single message). This is turning into a moderators only club; now and then someone posts something, but vast majority of messages is posted by only a few active members (read: moderators, with honorable exceptions of Ed who didn't turn 1000 messages and flyboy who declined the offer (as far as I remember)).
Now, what does that mean? That people find answers simply by Googling, or do they prefer other forums over OraFAQ (I can't tell; OTN Forums are probably well-visited. dBforums shut down a week or two ago. You might know some others), or ...?
As of spammers: there aren't many of them recently, are they? I downloaded statistics ZIP file but it doesn't contain that info.
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Re: Site statistics [message #667765 is a reply to message #667764] |
Sun, 14 January 2018 14:52 |
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Michel Cadot
Messages: 68641 Registered: March 2007 Location: Nanterre, France, http://...
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Many (most of?) "occidental" forum have seen their number of posters decrease since Indians were able to create their own blog for free 10 years ago. Many of our former Indian posters who were beginners have now their blogs. The content of these blogs is for most part FAQs, starting from an error or a question found in other forum (like OraFAQ) and explaining how to solve. The advantage of these blogs is to directly provide the solution for a problem, and in the words of their culture; nothing to ask, nothing to explain, and more suitable to their mind. Some of them are listed in our blogs page, have a look to them.
The number of regulars is quite stable, some go others come.
I posted banned accounts when there was a problem now it is quite stable. Here's the chart:
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