Various Statistics for 2008

On the subject of statistics... Looking at Dag's "Visualizing 2000 Visitors an Hour" blog post I thought it would be interesting to throw together some graphs for various stats for the entire year of 2008. They are presented below in separate graphs keeping categories with similar values together for scale.

Included are: videos published, video down votes, video up votes, comments posted, comment up votes, comment down votes, comment spam votes, new users, banned users, Sift Talks posts, and blogs posted.





Note the spike in April for new users is due to a spammer who created a few hundred sock puppet accounts


maatc says...

Very interesting! Thanks!

Seems that almost every graph is climbing until November.
Might be due to the rising amount of election related clips that were posted towards that date?

Or can you see another reason for that in your stats?

deathcow says...

looks to me like you've got a database chain tensioner failing on you there around October, you might need to replace a drive gear and get a set of new rails and make sure you guys check that MySQL has enough oil always

joedirt says...

Wow, proof that behavior nazis and all these cliquey comment downvoters are actually harmful. You'll notice all the comment abuse by marking spam and downvoting leads to a drop off of activity.

I mean a few active users leaving are probably about 1000 votes a months

lucky760 says...

Yeah, it's definitely the election that was a high point followed by the quick holiday drop-off. The lack of activity on the site was very evident during the holidays.

I'm rather surprised by the huge jump in comment downvotes, even doubling from Sept to Oct. It's a little discouraging. I guess it was just a matter of time that the original sensitivity to the comment downvote wore off.

Nice to see our registrations are pretty consistent month to month.

Krupo says...

that would be interesting.

Also, in the interests of 'proper' stats, wonder if it wouldn't be sensible to 'normalize' the data by eliminating the sock puppets? Ah meh, we can do it in our heads.

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