Looking at some more of your excellent stats, Darren, I notice an interesting trend for last year in the number of posts required to attain the silver medal position (not that I'm particularly interested in that...)

It's almost a perfect slide from January to August, with a brief flat-line Feb-March. Haven't worked out how to do a graph- do you make it elsewhere & then insert it? The gold is a more erratic pattern. Interesting that he summer postings were so low- even the little heatwave didn't catch the posters.

J    441

F    318

M   319

A    304

M    301

J     294

J     258

A    237

S    317

O    277

N    358

D    511

Originally Posted by: Bertwhistle 

Yes, as you say the peak month is usually January, and the trough is often in the summer, though sometimes a heatwave or widespread storms can skew that. So it's entirely typical to see a constant drop of posting between January aud August, although normally there are a few small peaks and troughs within that line.

If I want to post a graph, which I sometimes do, I will create it in Excel, save it as a .PNG image file, upload it to the web and link to it as an image. Sadly there is no means of inserting analytics on TWO forums!

Originally Posted by: Darren S 

I suspect the winter obsession with snow and also people being out more in the summer is the driver for these stats. When there is a threat of snow its obvious that site traffic takes a big hike probably because there are many people who have a snow fix requirement and there will be others who have an eye on possible disruption.

Originally Posted by: Sevendust 

Plausible; I wonder what caused the September upturn though.

Originally Posted by: Bertwhistle 

Plausible; I wonder what caused the September upturn though.

Originally Posted by: Bertwhistle 

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Originally Posted by: Darren S 

Effectively you are talking about the actions of one poster, or two if you count the fact that someone posted more than them. It's not really a representative sample for trend analysis!

Originally Posted by: Darren S 

Well, fair comment;  but I wonder if you can help with this one? I'm still only accessing up to January's stats when I click the usual link. Is there maybe something I'm doing wrong?

Cheers Darren.

Originally Posted by: Bertwhistle 

You have obviously escaped from the hotel room in Hanover.

Originally Posted by: AIMSIR 

Currently in the hotel lobby! WiFi is supposed to be available in the room but I've obviously been allocated the room that's furthest away from any routers. 

Originally Posted by: Darren S