Notes.net - Statistics and ranking

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Hi,

I was just curious about the usage of the Notes forums here on Notes.net and therefore

I created some statistics and a ranking of users according to the number of their posts.

  1. Overall statistic of posts by month through all the years since 1999 can be found here: http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllPostsByMonth.jpg

  2. The same statistic but each year gets its own line is here: http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllPostsByMonthYear.jpg

  3. The statistic for created posts during the first five months (January-May) of each year is here: http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/5MonthPostsByYear.jpg

  4. All posts the weekday and hour of its posting can be found here: http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllPostsByWeekday.jpg (Central European Time)

Comments: These are the posts combined from the forums “Notes/Domino 4 and 5 Forum” and “Notes/Domino 6 Forum”.

Every document (“Main topic”,“Response” or “ResponseToResponse”) has been sorted into the proper month/year by its Created-Property.

My conclusions:

-We had a growing tendency of posts in the forums untill November 2002.

-During the last 6 months we had significantly fewer posts then the year before.

-In the 5th month of 2003 however there is again an improvement as it had nearly as many posts as the year before.

I for myself am not posting any reasons for this development nor making any evaluation, but before you do, please consider:

The development of posts to the discussions can not be easily compared to the amount of users using this product.

The values can be distorted by many factors like:

  • the creation (and closing) of new discussion-forums (especially Beta-Discussions) as posts to them are not included

  • during times when a new release comes out there is increased “traffic” of postings

or the new versions of Notes have so few bugs that users just dont have any problems to post :-)))

  1. Here is a ranking of users by the number of their posts.

Ranking for all the years

Top 100 http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/Top100_AllYears.txt

Full ranking http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllUsers_AllYears.txt

Ranking for 1999

Top 100 http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/Top100_1999.txt

Full ranking http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllUsers_1999.txt

Ranking for 2000

Top 100 http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/Top100_2000.txt

Full ranking http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllUsers_2000.txt

Ranking for 2001

Top 100 http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/Top100_2001.txt

Full ranking http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllUsers_2001.txt

Ranking for 2002

Top 100 http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/Top100_2002.txt

Full ranking http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllUsers_2002.txt

Ranking for 2003

Top 100 http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/Top100_2003.txt

Full ranking http://www.pylonware.com/NotesNetStats/AllUsers_2003.txt

Comments: These are the posts combined from the forums “Notes/Domino 4 and 5 Forum” and “Notes/Domino 6 Forum”.

The documents for the ranking have been sorted by the content of the field “From” and the Created-Property of each document.

(I hope that this shows the correct authors :-)).

Congratulations and a BIG thanks to all of you for your help and contribution. Keep up the good work !!!

Thats all.

Hynek

PS:

  • This is not an official statistics and I am not working for IBM,Lotus or Iris.

  • If anybody wants the numbers then just ask for them.(*.wk4 files)

  • Please apologize any mistakes in my english.

  • At last please remember that I may be wrong. In the numbers as well as the conclusions :-))

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Subject: Good stuff - A real tribute to some of the IBM/Lotus people here as well.

I posted this in my blog, but wanted to re-post here to be sure it was visible to the people I wanted to thank.Hynek Kobelka just posted a series of lists showing statistics on the Gold forums (Notes 4&5 forum and Notes 6 forum) since 1999. Take a look at All Users/All years, and note that Julie Kadashevich is 4th on this list, Matt Chant is 5th, and other IBM/Loti are very high up, such as Hans Haraldsen is 21st, Andre Guirard is 25th and so on. Those four alone have posted 11263 posts on support forums where they are not paid to provide support. That is dedication!

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Subject: Out of curiosity

Do you have the statistics on responses per main post in general? Also, the ratio of orphaned (no responses) posts to answered posts? I have seen those for the BP forum, and they are handy for gauging how likely a post really is to go unanswered. Thanks for all the effort, by the way.

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Subject: RE: Out of curiosity

Hi,

The only thing I can tell now is that in both forums are 748 287 posts from which 263 669 are “Main topics” and 484 618 are “Responses” (or “ResponseToResponse”).

This makes an average of 1,84 response per question.

I know that this is not properbly the info you want but right now I dont know of any easy way how to find out how many main topics were “unanswered”.

The problem is the amount of data in my local replica. All reports which I have posted were very easy to create. Actually they are just categorized views which were exported to wk4-files and sorted. However to rebuild such a view takes half an hour for me :-))

The fastes way how to find out how many main topics are unanswered would be with an agent which would loop through all “Main topics” and look if they have responses.I will do it and post the results but it wont be earlier then tomorrow (and by now I dont have an idea how long the agent will run :-))).

Bye

Hynek

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Subject: RE: Out of curiosity

A shame there’s not a way to create a graph of the likelihood of receiving a response as a function of the level of detail provided in the original question.

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Subject: *LOL. We could make one up. Once we pointed to it enough, people would believe it, perhaps.

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Subject: *Thanks!

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Subject: Likelihood of recieving a response …

Hi,

sorry I have been away for the last days and so I am posting the numbers now.

The following small table shows the likelihood of recieving at least one response to a main topic.

Year

% of answered

“Main topics”

Average number of responses per topic

1998

63,28

2,38

1999

63,60

2,50

2000

65,37

2,48

2001

69,97

2,61

2002

74,21

2,90

2003

71,30

2,93

All in all you can see that you have an average chance of about 70% that your question will get an answer.

(If the answer helps you or not is an other story :-))))

Thats all.

Bye

Hynek

PS: I had to change the links in my former post a bit so I apologize if anybody had any trouble with it.

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Subject: *Wow. Thanks! That is a better response rate than I expected.