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hiptop Nation - Fun With Numbers

I was crunching some numbers on hiptop Nation for a couple of studies going on, so I thought I may as well make some charts and make things available to anyone who is curious. I am not very good at Excel, but feel free to download the workbook (2.15 MB) and analyze it to your liking (please share any analysis). Update: Download this new worksheet from Michael Smith for more advanced statistical wrangling.

The following stats were compiled on data as of 26 May, 2003. Direct questions or comments to mike at bedope ° com.

Number of Posts:

There are currently over 4,700 posts to hiptop Nation. Here they are broken down by month:

chart of unique bloggers
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Number of photos

11,001

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Unique Bloggers:

Or "registered users" if you prefer. As of 26 May 2003 (about noon), there are 438 unique bloggers on hiptop Nation. It looks like the rate of new bloggers joining is slowing somewhat. This may change with the recent release of the SunCom HipTop and the Real Soon Now release of color screen hiptop devices.

chart of unique bloggers
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4 Oct 2002	7 Nov	7 dec	6 Jan 2003	8 Feb	6 Mar	7 Apr	7 May	26 May
        35	  194	  244	       302	  353	  393	  424	  435	   438

Top Ten Bloggers

The bloggers with the most posts are:
  1. mlee (154)
  2. phatbudsjay (147)
  3. rt425 (131)
  4. bustagroove (130)
  5. drock309 (119)
  6. countzero (107)
  7. mike (100)
  8. groovygirl (86)
  9. chris (84)
  10. may (82)
Here are their posts broken down by month:

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chart of unique bloggers
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Oct 2002 Nov 2002 Dec 2002 Jan 2003 Feb 2003 Mar 2003 Apr 2003 May 2003
mlee 20 16 19 20 22 25 10 21
phatbudsjay 39 54 28 5 6 7 3 4
rt425 0 17 39 25 25 20 12 0
bustagroove 34 35 12 17 6 7 6 13
drock309 0 0 49 48 9 6 3 4
countzero 10 28 21 8 6 29 4 1
mike 32 10 8 15 8 9 10 8
groovygirl 5 14 21 9 13 11 8 5
chris 50 18 6 3 0 2 5 0
may 6 26 17 9 11 3 5 5

Website Stats

Pageviews by month

(as of 26 May, 2003)

For what it is worth, here is the breakdown of pageviews by month. This doesnt take into account proxies, people looking at rss feeds, LiveJournal friends pages, etc. Each unit (+) represents 2,000 requests for pages or part thereof. 

   month:   #reqs: #pages: 
--------: -------: ------: 
Oct 2002: 1134156:  41284: +++++++++++++++++++++
Nov 2002:  875607:  38627: ++++++++++++++++++++
Dec 2002:  995549:  41345: +++++++++++++++++++++

Jan 2003: 1205313:  44320: +++++++++++++++++++++++
Feb 2003: 1146521:  49751: +++++++++++++++++++++++++
Mar 2003: 1120469:  59768: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Apr 2003: 1184878:  65847: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
May 2003:  862130:  48757: +++++++++++++++++++++++++

Other

Some other website stats to date as of 26 May, 2003 (numbers in parenthesis indicate stats for the day of 26 May):

Successful requests: 8,524,623 (209,589)
Average successful requests per day: 36,481 (29,941)
Successful requests for pages: 389,699 (13,410)
Average successful requests for pages per day: 1,667 (1,915)
Failed requests: 6,934 (2)
Redirected requests: 396 (2)
Data transferred: 20.556 gigabytes (615.218 megabytes)
Average data transferred per day: 90.082 megabytes (87.888 megabytes)