# Board Stats **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 18, 2002, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676 "2002-05-18T06:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/1 "2002-05-18T06:43:42Z")
Do you have board stats available (other than the front page’s # of members or # of posts)? I guess, like hits per day, members with highest post counts, largest thread (in replies), etc. I was just curious. If not, no _beeg theeng_. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/2 "2002-05-18T07:18:13Z")
Well, if they had a board stat available that was something like: “Member with the highest posting average”, I think I’d win it. 😃 And as for the member with the highest post count, I think that honor would easily go to **handy** … no question about it! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/3 "2002-05-18T09:13:23Z")
To answer the OP: no we don’t. ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2002, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/4 "2002-05-18T12:06:19Z")
Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/5 "2002-05-19T00:00:48Z")
Do a search for **kabbes** in this forum. He’s the guru. **handy** has the most posts. I think **SPOOFE** is second? ---
**Author:** ![Truth\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Truth\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truth_Seeker)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/6 "2002-05-19T00:42:59Z")
**Arnold** Have traffic levels and the average number of users/day completely recovered from the crash? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/7 "2002-05-19T08:13:58Z")
Truth Seeker - I don’t know that either. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/8 "2002-05-19T18:20:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by White Lightning \* > **handy** has the most posts. I think **SPOOFE** is second? \*\* **Coldfire** , **tracer** , and **Guinastasia** all are have more than SPOOFE\*\*. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2002, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/9 "2002-05-19T22:22:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LolaBaby \* > \*\*Do you have board stats available (other than the front page’s # of members or # of posts)? > \*\* (hoping this is not another “false memory attack”): At the bottom of the front page, there also used to be a “total number of members online now” stat. I used it as a kind of barometer to see how long it would take pages to load. Disabled? Thanks Quasi ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/10 "2002-05-20T01:08:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*Colibri \*\*\* > **Coldfire** , **tracer** , and **Guinastasia** all are have more than **SPOOFE**. Word. My information is out of date. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Big\_Kahuna\_Burger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Kahuna_Burger)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/11 "2002-05-20T02:01:57Z")
Another useless board stat: Coldfire has the highest amount of posts below 10,000 with 9052. When you take out the days of the Winter of our Lost Content, he’s got approximately a 9.7 PPD rating. This means we’ll have our second 10,000 post party approximately July 26, or, if he waits two days, July 28, which is also the anniversary of his joining these boards. Yes, I spent 5 minutes on this instead of mes devoirs de francais. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/12 "2002-05-20T13:12:37Z")
[This is the thread in my sig](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=1790501#post1790501). It talks about the rate at which newbies join and disappear again along with general post count kerfuffle. At some point I did make another thread analysing statistics of posts per thread and views per thread in each of the forums. Try as I might, I don’t seem to be able to find this thread though (called something like “It’s time for some more board statistics”.) Maybe it got lost in the Great Purge. This is a shame because it Definitively Proved[sup]TM[/sup] that the BBQ Pit was the most worthwhile forum. AND there were some theories put forward by extremely esteemed posters about why that might be the case. Ah well. pan ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2002, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/13 "2002-05-20T14:22:48Z")
Is that why you forgot the cédille in français? Quasimodem - it’s been disabled. ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/14 "2002-05-23T04:11:09Z")
Speaking of board stats… Are we actually getting more hits per day post-upgrade? It’s the one thing I can think of which would make the “new” boards harder to use than the old, and yet it doesn’t seem to be that there’s been any real increase in traffic. Or are we still not back on our “old” server yet? ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/15 "2002-05-23T12:19:21Z")
My poor memory recalls a post by **TubaDiva** a month or so ago where she said that we were getting about “30% more traffic now than before the Great Crash”. But I can’t find it in Search, and my memory is bad (I also remember **TubaDiva** and Gillian Anderson driving me to Vegas in a Chrysler Town and Country minivan one long, erotic weekend last Winter, but that can’t be right…I mean really, a minivan???), so it might not be a true memory. ---
**Author:** ![jdavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f6c823/32.png) [@jdavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdavis)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/16 "2002-05-23T14:47:59Z")
Although I haven’t analyzed the web access logs thoroughly a preliminary analysis has shown we are getting 10% to 15% fewer pageviews after the crack/hardware upgrade/software upgrade than before. I’m not too surprized that the move to the new version of vBulletin has probably resulted in a performance hit even with processor upgrades thrown into the mix. During the last month the server had been performing rather poorly but I didn’t have time to do anything about it. I made a change to the server configuration last Friday and since then I’m happier with it’s performance. Less thrashing (which is why you experience the huge swings in performance over just a few minutes), better memory utilization (less swap space utilization), the database engine is getting more processing cycles and not dying every four hours, etc. The size of the database is still a problem and of course a couple of database wide searches will promptly bring all 525+ users to a grinding halt as the server has to read from disk again and again and again. At such times you’re reduced to the speed of the disk subsystem instead of the processor/memory subsystem. That’s not good because the disk subsystem is not particularly fast. In fact, we went from a RAID 1 setup to a RAID 5 setup during the upgrade so I could add much needed disk space. The only problem is RAID 5 tends to be slower than RAID 1. C’est La Guerre! Jerry ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/17 "2002-05-23T15:18:22Z")
Thanks for the info Jerry. The explanation of “thrashing” is informative. I am of course grateful for what we’ve got. FWIW I have noticed an improvement in the last week. A _minivan_? ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/18 "2002-05-23T16:36:27Z")
Perhaps it’s time to discuss deactivating the board-wide searches once again? ---
**Author:** ![LolaBaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@LolaBaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaBaby)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/19 "2002-05-24T05:25:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jdavis \* > \*\*Although I haven’t analyzed the web access logs thoroughly a preliminary analysis has shown we are getting 10% to 15% fewer pageviews after the crack/hardware upgrade/software upgrade than before. I’m not too surprized that the move to the new version of vBulletin has probably resulted in a performance hit even with processor upgrades thrown into the mix. > > During the last month the server had been performing rather poorly but I didn’t have time to do anything about it. I made a change to the server configuration last Friday and since then I’m happier with it’s performance. Less thrashing (which is why you experience the huge swings in performance over just a few minutes), better memory utilization (less swap space utilization), the database engine is getting more processing cycles and not dying every four hours, etc. > > The size of the database is still a problem and of course a couple of database wide searches will promptly bring all 525+ users to a grinding halt as the server has to read from disk again and again and again. At such times you’re reduced to the speed of the disk subsystem instead of the processor/memory subsystem. That’s not good because the disk subsystem is not particularly fast. In fact, we went from a RAID 1 setup to a RAID 5 setup during the upgrade so I could add much needed disk space. The only problem is RAID 5 tends to be slower than RAID 1. > > C’est La Guerre! > > Jerry \*\* I understood the French better than what you just said. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-stats/109676/20 "2002-05-24T14:42:09Z")
Makes good sense to me. Thanks, **Jerry**! I’m also up for killing board-wide searches. I like them well enough, but not so well that I’m willing to suffer the performance hit.