Forum:Statistics Of Site Usage

Question

[Biostar User]

Can the statistics of usage for the site be fetched somewhere?

For example, can the data points be fetched to plot monthly reports for:

• Number of users
• Number of contributions
• Pageviews
• Unique visitors

Answer 1

[Biostar User]

Here is the progression in number of users: There is a funny kink around April/May 2012... not sure what happened there...

[Istvan Albert]

that is the time of switch from SE1 to our own sofware/domain - switching domain names also caused the google rank (and through that Google traffic) to drop to just 20% of the previous rank, slowly climbing back ever since.

Answer 2

[Istvan Albert]

There is an API to get statistics where the number indicates the days in the past relative to the current date. The stats 100 days ago are then:

http://www.biostars.org/api/stats/100/

There is a new API that is being added that lists both the users that joined on a given date and the posts and votes created on a given day, again relative to the current date. This is only exists in the sourcecode at this time. Alas it ended up more complicated and fragmented that I would like so I want to change that before making it public.

I'd be happy to take suggestions on what the API should look like and what the data should contain, perhaps a single request could return all relevant information for that day, perhaps changing the stats URL above to return something like this for a query of status 1000 days ago it:

{
    "date": "2010-03-05", 
    "new_users": [
        {
            "date_joined": "2010-03-05", 
            "id": 87, 
            "last_visited": "2011-11-08", 
            "name": "Khader Shameer"
        }, 
        {
            "date_joined": "2010-03-05", 
            "id": 88, 
            "last_visited": "2011-09-06", 
            "name": "Pierre"
        }
    ], 
   "new_posts": [
        {
            "answer_count": 0, 
            "author": "Jeroen Van Goey", 
            "author_id": 68, 
            "creation_date": "2010-03-05", 
            "id": 147, 
            "lastedit_date": "2010-03-05", 
            "parent_id": 35, 
            "rank": 2972.5582433999998, 
            "score": 0, 
            "title": "C: A: Which operating system do you prefer for bioinformatics?", 
            "type": "Comment"
        }
    ], 
    "post_count": 147,
    "user_count": 87
}