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What happened on April 2017?
This, I think, is the move to https links, where all the links which point to SE were silently edited in the background from http...
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What does the number "people reached" on the profile page mean?
The "people reached" is calculated as sum of views of non-deleted questions-threads to which you contributed a 'significant' post, where significant means (I think this is still current We're ...
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Is voting on questions getting harsher?
Interesting. Moderators have access to certain analytical data not present in the 25K site analytics (25K only). Part of this is up-/down-vote data on questions (and answers). Below is a graph showing ...
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Statistically, how does question length relate to community response?
TL;DR: the longer, the better.
Based on the current data, longer questions tend to get a higher ratio of upvotes than shorter questions. There is not enough data to determine an 'optimal' question ...
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When is peak time for this website?
Sometimes I want to ask a question, but I am afraid that not many users are active in the moment.
That's a valid concern, but the other side of the coin is that there a not many users who are posting ...
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Has the upvoting really gone down?
Is this really happening or is it just me who feels that?
In relative terms, yes, this effect is real. However, it is not that users stopped voting. In absolute terms more votes are cast. The issue ...
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Identify our millionth question
As already mentioned in the comments, the 1000000th question will change over time. For example, depending on deletions/undeletions, migrations here/away etc. It also depends on your definition - do ...
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Discrimination against PDE questions?
I think that you suffer from a case of specialist's myopia. As I may have also been diagnosed with it let me elaborate.
The calculus (or elementary number theory, not to mention high school level ...
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Is this site overloaded?
It's not really that valuable (to you) to worry about "the site" being "overloaded". What's more important to you is how many people are watching the major tags of your question, pde in this case, and ...
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Which question on MSE has the most failed attempts?
According to this page, here are some of the questions with the greatest number of deleted answers, and with only $0$ or $1$ answer:
Apparently, How does one prove the matrix inequality $\det\left(6(...
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Is this site overloaded?
Regarding statistics, there is an Unanswered Tracker bot that posts in the Crusade of Answers chatroom that indicates that the number of unanswered questions on this site increases by about 200 ...
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Identify our millionth question
At the time when the 1-millionth question was actually posted, a screenshot was taken, see (scroll down) here , see also below. As noted by Isabella, this was Separation Properties in Topology.
I ...
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What are the current statistics of migrations to other sites?
Overall there are very few migrations.
Over the last 90 days there were only 8 migrations to Cross Validated (the statistics site) and also 8 to Physics (one of them rejected). Moreover there were 2 ...
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2021: a year in moderation
This is the difference from 2020 to 2021, computed as percentage increase, $$\frac{\textsf{newstat}-\textsf{oldstat}}{\textsf{oldstat}}\%.$$
Action
Moderators
Community
Users suspended
41 %
22 %
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Average Q/A score?
If you are looking for statistics about this site then data.stackexchange.com is the place to go. You can query the SE database about practically anything. If you don't know SQL you can run some of ...
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When and why is there traffic on MSE
I do not have real answers to your questions, but perhaps I can at least give some pointers to some data.
Traffic depending on the hour of day
As I have mentioned in the comments, there are some ...
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History of Math.StackExchange
According to my screenshot, the 1 millionth question was just posted today by Firat Celebi
Sadly, like those counts of who is the millionth person to walk over a bridge, I don't think there is ...
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What MathJax commands are most often used on this site?
It's possible to analyze this with help of the Stack Exchange Data Explorer if you know a bit of SQL. The procedure is as follows:
Split the body of the post into several chunks, splitting on the <...
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Measuring the health of MSE over time (in terms of activity)
I feel like I should post an answer, despite not giving any data you specifically asked for, because the Site Analytics I mentioned in comments does in fact show a recent dip in posts (Qs and As) and ...
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Statistics of fraction of questions closed per month (posted that month itself)
For such inquiries, SEDE seems like a reasonable tool. I have tried to do some queries - I have no doubt that they can be modified and improved in various ways.
Description of the queries posted below
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Are there any users who have invested more than what they presently have?
As already mentioned in comments, SEDE can be used for such queries.
I took the query showing the users with most bounties awarded and I have sorted it based pm percentage of the reputation given away ...
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Can we have "2021: a year of EoQS"?
There needs to be an analysis of whether this year's EQOS changes have improved the site or damaged it, and to what extent. If a large part of the community identified a problem and felt something ...
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Where can one find data on users' voting?
Data explorer is a good tool to find various statistics about SE sites. You can find various already existing queries ordering users by percentage of downvotes.
I took this query and modified it to ...
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Are more users deleting their accounts now than in the past?
As far as I know, we cannot get some data on dates of account deletions from the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE). Still, for deleted users we can find the date when they posted their last post. (...
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New site theme - are there statistics on how readership has changed?
This data has been a bit longer time coming than first expected... but the wait is over and I have some interesting results for you... but not a lot of answers.
Based on the question and comments ...
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