DiggStatus: Digging Deep Into Digg Users' Statistics -- Page 4
December 31, 2006
The Experiment
DiggStatus Was Born
Page 2: Submission/Promotion Graph
Do Top Users Control the Front Page?
Details on Top 5,000 Submitters
Page 3: Lame Users
Does the Average User Even Try?
Counting Inactivity
Front Paging Without Friends
Page 4: DiggStatus Usage
Most Queried User Names
Queries Per IP Address
Obligatory Traffic Graph
Page 5: Summary
Conclusions
Most Digg Users Are Pretty Lame
Dollars and Cents
Most Queried User Names
Many people typed in their own user names, but hundreds of visitors wanted to see what the DiggStatus tool had to say about some of the popular
kids. Who is this "kevinrose" fellow and why are so many people obsessed with him?
| - Proportion of total requests that were for this user |
| user name | percentage | total |
| kevinrose |
9.3%
|
1218 |
| alexalbrecht |
2.5%
|
338 |
| digitalgopher |
2.4%
|
325 |
| invader |
1.4%
|
189 |
| diggnation |
0.5%
|
71 |
| cliffosakajapan |
0.5%
|
69 |
| webtech |
0.3%
|
51 |
| aaaz |
0.3%
|
49 |
| albertpacino |
0.3%
|
48 |
| gsherwood |
0.3%
|
41 |
| krose |
0.2%
|
39 |
| kevin |
0.2%
|
38 |
| dirtyfratboy |
0.2%
|
38 |
| digg |
0.2%
|
34 |
| supernova17 |
0.2%
|
31 |
| snipehack |
0.2%
|
30 |
| poshsuicide |
0.2%
|
30 |
| alpacino |
0.2%
|
29 |
| alexalbrect |
0.1%
|
23 |
| bryan |
0.1%
|
22 |
this writing, there were 62430/121351 Digg Users with zero submissions,
showing 51.45% idle users. It would be safe to say that the rest of
the under 10 submission stats can be adjusted similarly.
Queries Per IP Address
It is interesting to look at the number of people who requested their own stats, and then went on to check out others.
| - Promotion Ratio |
| queries per IP | IPs |
| 1 |
4587
|
| 2 |
1178
|
| 3-4 |
808
|
| 5-6 |
255
|
| 7-9 |
131
|
| 10+ |
57
|
You'll notice I grew the groups as the query-per-IP totals started decreasing. I had to do this because there was such an enormous spread between 1 query and any amount over 2.
Obligatory Traffic Graph
I didn't want to put up the same cliché Digg Effect image that we've all seen dozens of times. Instead of taking the automatically generated image from a server log application, I decided to build my own interactive Digg Effect traffic graph.
You can click and drag the chart to scroll horizontally or you can move the slider below the chart. The number of queries submitted per minute are notated on the left, while the x-axis represents the passing of time.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: Submission/Promotion Graph
Page 3: Lame Users
:: Page 4: DiggStatus Usage
Page 5: Summary
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