Site statistics? 21 December 2005 at 10:42PM edited 30 November -1 at 1:00AM in Site Feedback 8 replies 850 views

innovate

Call me sad - but I'm a sucker for stats - any bar or pie chart grabs my attention!

With over 67,000 members, stats for the MSE forum could make interesting, and statistically meaningful, reading - especially if they are updated regularly, say, quarterly.

For instance, I'd love to know what the male vs female membership numbers are, and what age groups the members fall into. Another great chart would be one with geographical info - e.g. which counties of the UK do the members come from?

Anyone else interested in stats?

gizmoleeds

innovate wrote:

e.g. which counties of the UK do the members come from?

There is an MSE map here:

http://www.frappr.com/moneysavingexpert

innovate

Thanks for posting that link, gizmo, I had mislaid it! Gives a good visual impression but is very dependent on people to register on another site (I registered some time ago - one of 104 out of 67,000 who bothered :snow_laug ).


I was (am) hoping the MSE Web Team can create some charts from the registration data - though I realise that a lot of the registration info is voluntary.

gizmoleeds

innovate wrote:

I was (am) hoping the MSE Web Team can create some charts from the registration data - though I realise that a lot of the registration info is voluntary.

Yup - a computer would only be able to easily plot such data if it came from restricted a Location field (ie. a drop down list of places: London, Liverpool, Birmingham etc.).

As the field is an open and unresticted field this cannot easily be done. Many people don't enter anything, some put something random like "On this planet" :rolleyes: and so on...

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi

Not sure if you've seen this but there are lots of stats about the site on Alexa if you're interested

There's also the press release linked to from this week's tip

sra

Stuff's also starting to appear at big-boards.com:
http://www.big-boards.com/highlight/1306/
http://www.big-boards.com/board/1306/

Following a thread last week, mse are have their tracker for extended statistics (scroll down on that page).
They're adding details about frequently visited pages in the future

sra

innovate wrote:

Call me sad - but I'm a sucker for stats - any bar or pie chart grabs my attention!

With over 67,000 members, stats for the MSE forum could make interesting, and statistically meaningful, reading - especially if they are updated regularly, say, quarterly.

For instance, I'd love to know what the male vs female membership numbers are, and what age groups the members fall into. Another great chart would be one with geographical info - e.g. which counties of the UK do the members come from?

Anyone else interested in stats?

The majority of people who use this site are not registered members so if you want to know about site users in general I think the only way would be to have a little site survey popup thing you get every now and again when you visit some sites.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Pop-ups is a swear word in MoneySaving Towers :snow_grin

tigermatt

sra wrote:

little site survey popup thing

Oh, you answered for me Andrea!

MSE_Andrea wrote:

Pop-ups is a swear word in MoneySaving Towers :snow_grin