Wikipedia:HighBeam/Metrics

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Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump.

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

Data![edit]

All links to highbeam.com/doc/something in articles
Date	Unique articles	Unique links	Total links	Increase
2012-02-11	8462	10277	11308	–
2012-03-07	8527	10349	11388	80
2012-04-03	8579	10399	11444	56
2012-05-02	8818	10853	11943	499
2012-06-01	9104	11321	12455	512
2012-07-02	9295	11712	12883	428
2012-08-02	9409	12007	13190	307
2012-09-02	9757	12627	13913	723
2012-10-01	10090	13164	14555	642
2012-11-01	10312	13647	15096	541
2012-12-01	10548	14025	15537	441
2013-01-02	10799	14435	16009	472
2013-02-04	11116	14948	16607	598
2013-03-04	11352	15351	17063	456
2013-04-03	11497	15617	17383	320
2013-05-03	11666	15966	17773	390

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)[reply]

Analysis[edit]

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%