by Bon Echo » Thu Sep 03, 2015 3:34 pm
Because I like statistics...here are some numbers from the contest.
But first the preamble: I pulled these numbers from the "Latest caches" and "Latest Logs" and they may be somewhat incomplete.Also, for the "logs", I wasn't able to pull out the log type or cache type, so it will be a bit less useful. Also, I looked at all caches hidden or logged from Aug 1 to Sept 1, expecting that most of the "September 1st" logs / publications were actually recorded before "August 31 12 pm EST" (the contest deadline) but after "Sept 1 00:00 UTC". This is by no means official, and I'm just a user of the site. Hopefully you enjoy seeing these numbers and can give "the community a collective high-five" for a job well-done hiding and finding caches during the month. Lets hope the momentum continues!
Number of users who created listing(s) during the contest period: 26
........Number of users who created 3 or more listings: 11
Number of users who logged a cache during the contest period: 50
........ [NOTE: this includes all log types, including logs on their own caches. I suspect most are Found It logs but couldn't easily do the stats on the types of logs)
Total logs recorded during the contest period: 335
Total users who created listing(s) and/or wrote logs: 61 (in otherword, the number of cachers who used the site last month)
Number of new listings created: 126 (this is approx an 8% increase in number of active caches)
New listings, by type:
BIT Cache 5 (a 3% increase in the total number of BIT caches)
Event 5
Guest Book 21 (a 38% increase in the total number of Guest Book caches, from 56 to 77)
Letterbox 2 (7% increase, from 30 to 32)
Moving 7 (24% increase, from 29 to 36)
MP3 (Podcache) 1 (33% increase, from 3 to 4)
Multicache 4 (12% increase, from 32 to 36)
Quiz 6 (a 20% increase, from 30 to 36)
Traditional 34 (8% increase, from 591 to 625)
Unknown type 6 (3% increase, from 45 to 51)
USB (Dead Drop) 2 (33% increase, from 6 to 8)
Virtual 24 (5% increase, from 466 to 490)
Webcam 9 (18% increase, from 49 to 58)
New listings, by location:
USA 85 (a 6% increase in the number of active caches in the USA)
Canada 41 (this means that the number of active OCNA caches has more than tripled in Canada, from 19 to 60 active listings)
[okay, I have to comment on this...not bad eh!]
[these precentages might be off a bit as my numbers are not quite adding up. But you get the point)
Maryland 22
North Carolina 22
New Mexico 10
Virginia 5
Tennessee 4
Ohio 3
Pennsylvania 3
Colorado 2
Minnesota 2
New York 2
North Dakota 2
Arizona 1
Georgia 1
Michigan 1
Montana 1
Nebraska 1
None (Locationless) 1
Utah 1
Washington 1
Ontario 20
Quebec 7
British Columbia 5
Alberta 4
Manitoba 3
New Brunswick 1
Saskatchewan 1