Wikipedia:HighBeam/Metrics

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This page is for charting some basic statistics about account distribution, usage, and effects.

Data!

File:Links to highbeam.svg

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|+ All links to highbeam.com/doc/something in articles

!Date !!Unique articles !!Unique links !!Total links !!Increase

2012-02-1184621027711308
2012-03-078527103491138880
2012-04-038579103991144456
2012-05-0288181085311943499
2012-06-0191041132112455512
2012-07-0292951171212883428
2012-08-0294091200713190307
2012-09-0297571262713913723
2012-10-01100901316414555642
2012-11-01103121364715096541
2012-12-01105481402515537441
2013-01-02107991443516009472
2013-02-04111161494816607598
2013-03-04113521535117063456
2013-04-03114971561717383320
2013-05-03116661596617773390

;Notes from the data guru

For example, the first row shows results from the external links dump for February 11, 2012, counting only links of the format shown (or with "www." in front) in articles. There were links in 8462 different articles, and there were 10277 different links. Some links have been used more than once, giving a total of 11308 links in articles. The final column shows the increase in the total from the previous period.

Since I'm recording facts, the new data required downloading 11 files with a total size of 15.8 GB; those files expanded to a total size of 99.2 GB. I noticed a big jump up and down in the size of the files with external links for highbeam.com (up in August 2012 and down in October 2012). My curiosity then led to making the graph shown above, but I haven't tried to find out what was responsible. Johnuniq (talk) 05:03, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Analysis

  • In the two months before the partnership began there were an average 68 references per month to HighBeam
  • In the months following the donation, there were a total of 5,700 links to HighBeam added; 487 references per month
  • That's an average increase per month of 419 references to HighBeam; and a percent change per month of 516%

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