http://qs321.pair.com?node_id=671681

The number of top nodes for each month, obtained from jcwren's PTAV (as referenced by grinder in Re: Are monks hibernating?), followed by the same data normalized to the month in 2002. Cheers.

  '08 '07 '06 '05 '04 '03 '02
Dec   678 606 810 860 844 882
Nov(**)   660 587 807 670 761 900
Sep   665 650 958 921 966 951
Aug   802 733 995 1000 1022 1149
Jul   722 725 1024 1010 1176 1203
Jun   651 758 1046 1038 1095 1037
May   673 735 1088 1020 972 1142
Feb 704 (*) 555 881 1038 844 (*) 1010 914
Jan 690 583 830 992 895 1050 983

  '08 '07 '06 '05 '04 '03 '02
Dec   76 68 91 97 95 100
Nov(**)   73 65 89 74 84 100
Sep   69 68 100 96 101 100
Aug   69 63 86 87 88 100
Jul   60 60 85 83 97 100
Jun   62 73 100 100 105 100
May   58 64 95 89 85 100
Feb 77 (*) 61 96 114 92 (*) 111 100
Jan 70 59 84 101 91 107 100

(*) 29 days

(**) 05-30 only

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Re: Top level node creation trend update
by CountZero (Bishop) on Mar 03, 2008 at 19:57 UTC
    I simply love statistics! Now if someone would turn it into a pie-chart? ;-)

    CountZero

    A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

      Now if someone would turn it into a pie-chart?

      Must have moved from development to managment... ;)

      NEXT UP, can someone generate me the Cost/Benefit Analysis! for this information.

        Must have moved from development to managment... ;)

        LOL Herkum++

        I just remarked that because I have been working for a solid 7 days to make statistical graphs on basis of a large maritime claims-database I run, where in the end the client was more impressed by the nice colours and the 3D-pie charts than by the data or the analysis.

        CountZero

        A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

        NEXT UP, can someone generate me the Cost/Benefit Analysis! for this information.
        This information was, if I understand it correctly, provided free of charge, and is worth every penny. Didn't even have to fire up my favourite interpreter for that...
Re: Top level node creation trend update
by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Mar 03, 2008 at 23:05 UTC
    I'll take this opportunity to say I think it's probably normal for posts/nodes in a knowledge network like this to spike quickly (as word about the site gets around) and then taper slowly off to a consistent lower rate. So many things have been said so well here that many threads become a discussion of which past threads make the best examples for a particular situation. Searching PerlMonks probably accounts for a great many answers that in 2002 would have required a fresh post.

    That recently we've seen an upward trend since about November and perhaps August (month over month and year over year) is a promising sign. However, I think that we slowed somewhat in posts from 2002 to 2006 isn't a drastic problem.

      I would guess only a very small portion of posters do a Super Search before posting. And even then, anything other than trivial questions are hard to find previous answers for. The Q&A section may have some impact though.

      IIRC, there was a period where the site wasn't indexed on any of the search engines, which probably had a downward impact on traffic. That's now been rectified, which may account for the recent upturn. Other than that, I'd say things are tapering off because of other places to ask Perl questions (and get answers), and a general (but relatively slow) decrease in the popularity of Perl over the last few years.

      But if the posts don't pick up, I will never be able to pass vroom's XP!

Re: Top level node creation trend update
by Bloodrage (Monk) on Mar 04, 2008 at 08:42 UTC
    I'm trying very hard to skew the data.