May 2010 Statistics [Updated]

All I have to say is...Edinbuuuuurrrrrrggggghhhh!

Top 10 Countries
1. United States
2. United Kingdom
3. Canada

Oho! What's that, Kamas? Third? I almost pity you.

Sorry, but I just had to bring that up.

Regarding the Czech Republic, I'm not sure who they are, but there's at least three active members from there. Right now, YWS is still small enough that it only takes a few active users to get a country into the top 10.

Of course, there's a huge difference between #10 (South Africa) and #1 (USA); the number of visits YWS gets from South Africa is about 1% the number of visits the site gets from the USA.

Nate wrote:Regarding the Czech Republic, I'm not sure who they are, but there's at least three active members from there. Right now, YWS is still small enough that it only takes a few active users to get a country into the top 10.

Or one...

No, seriously, tell me who the Czechs are. I'll teach them a lesson.

(love you, Czechs!)

I switched to Chrome! I'm sure you're all very proud of me. And I do quite like it, especially over IE.

Awesome stats, though.

beckiw wrote:All I have to say is...Edinbuuuuurrrrrrggggghhhh!

The 'Burgh fights back! Wee hoo!

Blink wrote:There's one important question, though:

Who are the Czechs?

That was my FIRST question. Czechs? Who?

And yay Chrome!


EDIT- I'm sure India is because of me, shubhiloves2write, palantalid, and a certain damsel.in.distress who's planning on returning. (Who's to blame for that?!)

Woot, Ireland are holding their own! (Myself, Jas and who else?) But seriously, the Czech Republic? I don't know any Czech members!

Come to us! Come join the Small Insignificant European Countries Coalition!

(After all, you knocked Finland off the charts!)

Per Knightley's request, here are the 2010 Review Stats:

Literary Works: 1,210
All Literary Comments (including comments by author): 5,146
All Literary Comments Minus Author: 4,375
Reviews >= 250 Characters: 3,718
Reviews >= 500 Characters: 2,650
Reviews >= 1000 Characters: 1,470

Review to Work Ratio: 3.07
Percentage of Literary Comments (minus author) that count as a review: 85%

But all that's meaningless unless put into context. In terms of the number of reviews, May 2010 is the 4th largest month out of 66. It actually just barely trails #3 (December 2008) and #2 (January 2009). January 2010 (#1) was so ridiculously high in reviews that I'm not quite sure we'll top it for some time (it wouldn't even necessarily be a good thing to top it just yet... January 2010 led to a burn-out among a lot of YWSers). Needless to say, this is the best showing for May ever.

Additionally, the review to work ratio of 3.07 is also slightly above the average of 2.96.

As for June 2010 thus far, there's been 1,594 reviews thus far and 525 literary works. That works out roughly to a ratio of 3.04. If it continues at the current pace, June 2010 will probably rank somewhere around #8.


EDIT
Here's an interesting statistic: A little more than 50% of all reviews thus far in June 2010 were made by YWSers who have been members for at least eight months. Only 14% of reviews were made by YWSers who have been a member for a month or less. YWSers who have been members for at least a year wrote 40% of all reviews.

Nate wrote:EDIT
Here's an interesting statistic: A little more than 50% of all reviews thus far in June 2010 were made by YWSers who have been members for at least eight months. Only 14% of reviews were made by YWSers who have been a member for a month or less. YWSers who have been members for at least a year wrote 40% of all reviews.

That is interesting. It's sad, but then cool at the same time... I don't know what I'm saying. Thanks Nate!

Cool! YWS keeps getting better! (Heh, Christina Aguilera, hehe) *fails*

captain.classy wrote:

Nate wrote:EDIT
Here's an interesting statistic: A little more than 50% of all reviews thus far in June 2010 were made by YWSers who have been members for at least eight months. Only 14% of reviews were made by YWSers who have been a member for a month or less. YWSers who have been members for at least a year wrote 40% of all reviews.

That is interesting. It's sad, but then cool at the same time... I don't know what I'm saying. Thanks Nate!

Haha, I do know what you mean. It's cool that old members continue to contribute in such a huge and meaningful way, but it's also sad that new members aren't reviewing as much. Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure how to go about fixing that. In the past, we had the pay to post system that somewhat enforced a 2:1 review to work ratio, but all it really did was keep the number of literary works down.