BSDstats: Stand up and be counted! -- November Statistics
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at msu.edu
Thu Dec 6 08:17:40 PST 2007
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45:04PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> - --On Wednesday, December 05, 2007 23:40:07 +0100 Tore Lund
> <toreld at netscape.net> wrote:
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> > Bill Moran wrote:
> >> Huh?
> >
> > The figure for PC-BSD in November was 6551. When I checked earlier this
> > evening, it was 1997. I suppose this does NOT mean that 4554 PC-BSD
> > users have kicked the bucket. Probably, it means that many PC-BSD
> > systems have not YET reported to bsdstats in December. I think this way
> > of doing it does not serve the following purpose:
> >
> >> The mission of this site is to compile semi-accurate numbers for
> >> advocacy and marketing of the *BSD operating systems.
> >
> > For the fulfillment of this noble mission, it would be better to display
> > statistics for the last complete month to casual visitors. If people
> > want to see running counters, this could be done on a different page.
>
> Actually, what we should do is put a 'History' page off that main one that
> expands that chart to include the previous two or three months, as well as this
> one ... would be easier/faster to implement then a graph too ...
>
> Antony? Have a couple of minutes to whip that together? Maybe do it similar
> to the countries page, but instead of listing countries, list month/year?
> maybe go back 6 months?
Gee, maybe you could mine the data to do a 'most recent 31 days' report.
That should not show the dips and peaks in the middle of the month.
////jerry
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