# How to interpret discourse stats

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-interpret-discourse-stats/6528>\
**Category:** Admin\
**Created:** [April 17, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-interpret-discourse-stats/6528 "2019-04-17T14:47:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-interpret-discourse-stats/6528/1 "2019-04-17T14:47:16Z")

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@spujol and I are looking at the admin stats in order to report them to the NIH and our external advisors. According to the “Posts” section there were 9.5k posts in the last year and 297 on peak on October 17. But is that real? I’m signed up for mailing list mode and I get a lot of email, but not that much…

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/d/6/d660e2c67fac34029d35b5066007f38683ca2282.png)

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-interpret-discourse-stats/6528/2 "2019-04-18T15:41:52Z")

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@jcfr, @lassoan, @fedorov (or anyone) do you have thoughts on this?

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-interpret-discourse-stats/6528/3 "2019-04-18T15:57:14Z")

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That’s weekly stats (see time difference between two data points). You can get detailed reports, too, for example: [https://discourse.slicer.org/admin/reports/posts?end\_date=2019-04-18&start\_date=2019-03-17](https://discourse.slicer.org/admin/reports/posts?end_date=2019-04-18&start_date=2019-03-17)

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**Author:** ![pieper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/pieper/32/8_2.png) [@pieper](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/pieper)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-interpret-discourse-stats/6528/4 "2019-04-18T17:39:03Z")

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Ah, yes, that does explain the 297 number. Thanks!

It still seems like a lot. For example, it says there wer 52 posts yesterday, and at 9.5k over the last year that’s an average of over 26 per day. I guess that’s right.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/4/c/4c4c50498bc61dc6cd298ac0c78dc4383d16aed5.png)

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**Author:** ![jcfr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/jcfr/32/17825_2.png) [@jcfr](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/jcfr)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 1:48pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-interpret-discourse-stats/6528/5 "2019-04-23T13:48:52Z")

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I exported as CSV the data for 2018 and the total is 9661

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/1/9/19ad99e236329235308aa3766b64bf662413a970.png)