Re: Statistics about PerlMonks

Number of registered users

Number of new nodes

What do you mean by "new"? If you just want to know the number of nodes, the node ids are assigned sequentially.

Number of new opening nodes

Again, I don't know what "new" means, so I guess you mean all nodes. You can't easily query this statistics, but I think there's no harm in telling you the counts of root nodes for some sections. (A few sections are omitted on purpose.) The following numbers are current as of this post, will not be updated later, and include unapproved and even reaped nodes.

Seekers of Perl Wisdom: 84430
Cool Uses for Perl: 1665
Meditations: 6453
Perlmonks Discussion: 3817
Categorized Questions: 790
Tutorial: 254
Obfuscated Code: 1911
Perl Poetry: 1285
Perl News: 1729
Module Reviews: 147
Book Reviews: 150
Craft: 275
Code Catacombs: 1869
Snippets: 2037
Polls: 335

Number of Anonymous nodes

This one is easy, you can query the list of all of them on Anonymous Monk's writeups: the count listed is often inaccurate, but you can figure out the exact count by changing the "starting at" field.

Number of page viewers

There used to be some statistics of this at Most Visited Nodes and Yesterday's most-visited nodes, but they don't work anymore, the numbers are stale.

Number of messages in the Chatterbox, number of people who commented in the chatterbox

As mentioned by others, you can get the numbers for a one-week window from mojotoad's cbstats or from Tanktalus' cbstats. If you just want to know the numbers from the start of time, the number of messages might be related to the message ids you can see in the Tickers, but I've no idea if these started from 1, I think they might have been reset once, and I think they include private messages and possibly other things too. As for the number of monks who ever talked in the chatterbox, the gods may be able to extract an approximation for this number by looking at how many users have a last_chatter setting. This setting stores the last line you talked in the chatterbox, so that the site can filter accidental double submits.

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Re^2: Statistics about PerlMonks by szabgab (Priest) on Dec 11, 2010 at 21:18 UTC
Thanks for the data. By "new" I meant new in the last 12 month. In the long run it would be nice to see an ongoing report about the number of nodes create per month. Also the monthly change in the other numbers would be interesting.	[reply]
Re^3: Statistics about PerlMonks by ambrus (Abbot) on Dec 11, 2010 at 21:35 UTC
If you just need to know the number of nodes in any particular month, you can use Super Search to find the node id of the last node until any date. Most node ids are allocated to actual writeups, whether replies or root nodes: reaped spam nodes are included, and a few new pmdev-only nodes (posts or pmdevnotes). There's no such easy way to find out the number of root nodes (or the number of sopws, that is almost the same number) in a time interval.	[reply]