Some graphs showing forum traffic

[Mark]

Just out of interest here's some of the latest stats about the forum. If anyone would like to know any specific stats please just ask and we'll see what we can produce for you.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Cool. What happened at the end of Feb 2009 to produce such a spike?

[Mark]

I think there was a highly publicised stabbing in Peckham, and for some strange reason if you search google for street gangs in london we used to come first but now we're about 10th.

[SeanMacGabhann]

A few BIG threads that month - and by big I mean more than 2000 views

This one had more than 5000

and there were 3000+ hits for Nigel the 185 bus driver, the EDF drinks at Black Cherry, Nappy Changing and Blue MOuntain cafe threads (each)

[silverfox]

I notice April 2009 has been omitted from the dates along the bottom. That was when Sean and I had our first lover's tiff.

Is this deliberate? I think we should be told.

[Mark]

Yes, the traffic peaked (because everyone switched from Eastenders to the Silver Fox/Sean MacGabhann Love Tiff on the forum) and it skewed the results so it was omitted.

[????]

So, to a degree, suggests that the Lounge, uniquely, is on the slide....

[????]

Cheers Mark by the way. Interesting.

[????]

Nice to see everyone getting rid of their unwanted presents after christmas too ;-)

[Mark]

???? Wrote:

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> So, to a degree, suggests that the Lounge,

> uniquely, is on the slide....

Perhaps just plateauing, here's another one with a 60 day moving average trendline*

*I don't know if that's the right one to use but it looks ok.

[Huguenot]

I don't know whether the Lounge is on the slide or not - I don't think that's right in 'real' terms.

I'm surprised it kept its end up - until the split all the family discussion stuff and drawing room stuff went in the lounge.

Since these two added together are half of Lounge's overall traffic, I'd have expected to see the Lounge halve in size if it didn't attract new and growing audiences.

So for me the Lounge 'plateau' actually represents a doubling in size!

[Keef]

Cheers Mark.

Is it possible to see how an individual user (me) posts. I'd be interested to see how much I post now, compared to a year or 2 ago! Same for Mockney.

[Mark]

Very valid point Huguenot, you can see the Lounge traffic dip in July last year when the other rooms were created.

Sorry Keef, the stats come from Google Analytics which measures general website traffic it can't work out individual's actions from the forum's database. Unspecifically I can tell you though that your posts have gone from 'a lot' to 'not as many'.

[mockney piers]

given access to the database i could do that no problem. dump it into excel and make some pretty graphs to post up?

Did i mention I've time on my hands?

[Keef]

How have you got time on your hands, is he a good sleeper?

[mockney piers]

He's sleeping right now and I'm reading a very good book...happy joy. Mind you, boiler's on the blink, anyone know a good plumber, I can't see the wood for the 'recommended' trees in the business section.

[HAL9000]

Mark Wrote:

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> Perhaps just plateauing, here's another one with a

> 60 day moving average trendline*

> ...

> *I don't know if that's the right one to use but

> it looks ok.

That is not right. A 60-day simple moving average should be applied after zero values are removed from the time series (e.g. the first chart).

The second chart looks like an IPCC data manipulation 'trick' was applied to produce an EDF version of the ?hockey stick graph? :)

Interesting post nevertheless - thanks.

[annaj]

Mockney, Peter Bennison is the man you want.

But please try and stay on topic.

[karter]

What Hal said.

[Huguenot]

I don't think in general 60 days averages should remove zero values - but it should in this case as it was 'suspension' not audience activity that caused it.

But either way HAL, I've made the mental leap to remove the suspension from the graph and I'm not paying attention to the apparent rise in the last two month average data.

It's clear that activity remanined fairly consistent across the last 6 months, which means that activity must have increased on non family and non Drawing Room material to compensate for the appearance of those sections.

That's why I'm saying the Lounge is even more successful now than it was in the past.

Mind you, all these graphs feel a bit like looking in the loo after you've done a whoopsie ;-)

[Mark]

ok, big apologies but I missed out the last 128 days on the previous version of this graph (it only went up to 1000 rows before).

Here it is:

[edited] to add: I've attached the file if anyone wants to play with it and make something up.