Update statistics

I would like to see methodology documented for everything. For both of these numbers, do we sum up all versions over all time, or just the supported versions? All time is certainly more impressive, but supported versions is more useful.

IMO those stats should be promoted more; though perhaps they are in the redesign plans. Some of the DCDC graphs were way more impressive than just the raw numbers.

My suggestions for the current statistics:

Total d.o users

MAX(uid) from {users} where the user isn't blocked. Perhaps this could be updated semi-automatically? Imagine if it was a javascript auto-incrementing counter...

New users / day

New users / day over the last 365 days.

Service Providers

Users logged in within the last year with the appropriate profile field. I think it's fair to say that those who haven't logged in within a year aren't involved anymore.

Discussion threads / etc

MAX(nid) from {node} where it's published. Again, live-updating would be pretty sweet.

Response Rate

I feel this is not worth too much to those interested in the DA; I think it should be dropped. Especially as the stats will be skewed by all of the "subscribe" postings.

Book Pages

Number of nodes which are not in the "archived" section of the handbook.

IRC Channels

If the DA doesn't support the IRC channels, then I don't think that stat belongs on a DA page. However, if the DA somehow helped support freenode (do they need it?) it would be nice.

Modules and themes

Count of project nodes for supported Drupal releases.

Technical Participation

It's unclear if this covers just core or core and contrib. I think the best stat is number of unique users posting at least one file ending in .diff or .patch in the last 12 months.

Downloads

Apache logs for core tarballs over a month sound good for core. As for CVS checkouts, are those just checkouts or checkouts and updates? I think rather then number of checkouts, number of active CVS users is a better metric, and one that can easily be turned into something marketable.

That covers just the stats currently on the page. I think the biggest technical issue is determining if the stats are automatically updated or done manually every set period.

greggles pointed out this page which is also useful: http://groups.drupal.org/node/6551

Closing old issues. Please re-open if necessary.