How YWS has responded to Leaderboards changes
Thought this chart of pageviews for the Leaderboards pages was mildly interesting, and it may interest others as well:
Dates covered: November 1, 2015 - February 11, 2016
I've marked most of the peaks in the chart. I'm not sure what the peak on YWS' birthday is about, but I think the rest are mostly self-explanatory. Whenever there's a Review Day, there's a small bump. Whenever there's a change, there's a big bump followed by a sustained increase in the average number of pageviews per day.
There was a very high sustained rate following the January Review Day, and that's probably because on the day after, I began asking about changing the Leaderboard rankings from # of reviews to points.
In November, the max was 97 on Nov. 14 (YWS' Birthday), and the min was 13 on Nov. 27.
In December, the max was 336 on Dec. 18 (added as tab), and the min was 10 on Dec. 4.
In January, the max was 203 on Jan. 12 (tab icon changed), and the min was 39 on Jan. 11.
In February (so far), the max was 465 on Feb. 9 (re-designed), and the min was 66 on Feb. 6.
There so far appears to be a higher sustained rate from the re-design too, but it'll be a couple weeks until I know for certain.
Gender:
Points: 11417
Reviews: 425