The February 2011 Statistical Nonsense Post

Ready for more statistical nonsense? I bet you are. First the stats.

Pageviews: 662,342
Visits: 53,087
Unique Visitors: 15,238

Posts: 10,022
Topics: 1,175
New Members: 374

Reviews: 3,223
Literary Works: 966
Review to Work ratio: 3.34

Reviews > 500 characters: 2,276
Reviews > 1000 characters: 1,407

Profile Comments: 15,592
All Literary Comments: 4,083


What does it all mean!?

Nothing really. This February was slightly more active (by 3%) than last February in terms of pageviews, but much more active (by 25%) in terms of visits. 3,223 is also the most reviews ever done in February, and actually beats out most of the months during 2010 (including ones with 31 days).

However, one thing is clear: the literary forums are slowly becoming the only active forums left. Counting literary comments and works, nearly 60% of all forum activity took place in the literary area. Most of the remaining forum activity takes place in storybooks. Activity that used to take place in The Lounge and Randomness/Time Wasters has now shifted to profiles and clubs.

In any case, though, YWS is remaining steady, which is pretty good for a boring month like February.

Extra Stats

Top 10 countries:
United States
United Kindom
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Philippines
India
Ireland
Puerto Rico
Pakistan

Yes, that's right. Pakistan is now the tenth biggest country on YWS. We have active YWSers there in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad.

Top 10 cities:
London
Sydney
Melbourne, AUS
Auckland, NZ
Cebu, Philippines
Freeport, Maine, USA
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Manila, Philippines
Calgary, CAN
Toronto, CAN

So two cities from the UK, two from Australia, two from Canada, two from the Philippines, one from the United States, and one from New Zealand. Pretty international, no?

Go freeport! We rock! I find it funny that our little town of 8,000 people has more YWS users than New York.

Cool. This statistical stuff is awesome.

I find it rather funny how Ottawa beat out Toronto (last month) and Toronto is the bigger city.

Funkymomo wrote:Go freeport! We rock! I find it funny that our little town of 8,000 people has more YWS users than New York.

Freeport can't be that small! An old friend of mine lives there, and I know someone else who's from there.

I'm gonna bring Manchester back to the top. You watch.

haha, yeah right!

Challenge accepted!

Nate wrote:

Funkymomo wrote:Go freeport! We rock! I find it funny that our little town of 8,000 people has more YWS users than New York.

Freeport can't be that small! An old friend of mine lives there, and I know someone else who's from there.

It's 7,000 to 10,000, last I heard. I just averaged out 8,000. My sister knows a 27 year old named Nate too, whadaya know? We're just that awesome.

*vows to put her little boring state on the stats list one day*

Most of the remaining forum activity takes place in storybooks.

Really? I was kind of under the impression that storybooks were kind of dying out. Glad to hear they're still up there with the literary comments!

Nate wrote:In any case, though, YWS is remaining steady, which is pretty good for a boring month like February.

Whoa there, don't dis February! What other month is so fantastically truncated? What other month has a modern English name that means purity and an Old English name that means cabbage? What other month is pronounced so radically different than how it is spelled? What other month can pass without one full moon? What other month includes a holiday so useless and uncanny as Groundhog's Day (not to mention Valentine's Day and Chinese New Year)?

What other month has birthed people who would adamantly defend their birth-month against bigoted Maylings?

None.

(Cool stats, too, by the way. I'm glad to see the lit. forums getting popular!)

Canada! <3

Heh. Azila has put me in my place.

Is it possible that people who live nearish Freeport (I'm in Bangor) might help boost those numbers? I don't really know how that works, except maybe by IP addresses.
Either way I'm really happy to see Maine there finally.