First-hand: how was the year on Geektimes

2017 was the year when Giktimes finally found his face and became an adult brother of Habr. Together we watched the exploration and non-exploration of space, met new gadgets, talked about the health of geeks and argued about emigration. And while we did all this, our servers silently wrote accurate and meaningful numbers. We considered everything to tell us how this year was at Giktimes.









By the way, if you want to know the same thing about Habrahabr, go here .

Some bare figures.



Publications

2016

2017

Total publications



Of them:

- Through the sandbox

- Translations

- Tutorials

- News

- Megaposta

7,374





308

443

125

768

eleven

5,509





247

676

124

348

eight

Of them published

7,078 (~ 19 per day)

5,291 (~ 15 per day)

Hidden in drafts

296 (~ 4% of all entries)

218 (~ 4% of all entries)

With a positive rating



Negative rating

6,870 (~ 93% of all entries)

318 (~ 4.3%)

5,207 (~ 94.5% of all entries)

218 (~ 4%)

In the marcdown

114

214

In recovery mode

310

335

Have a vote in the publication

467

257

Had comments

7,076

5,313

There are voices

7,276

5,462

Bookmarked

7,244

5,434

The total length of all publications

58 856 586 characters

59 001 434 characters

The total rating of all publications

Of which total votes

That is all the advantages

And cons

114 324



171 330

142 827

28 503

105 843



146 183

126 013

20 170



In 2017, 5,509 materials were created, of which 5,291 were published. In 2016, there were slightly more publications - 7,374 were created, but only 7,078 were published. For various reasons (zaminusovannye, randomly posted, with violations, etc.) there were 218 publications in drafts , and last year - 296. That is, the percentage of "marriage" on the site was about 4%, which, in fact, is also quite a lot. But in general, users have become kinder - the number of pluses has increased, and the number of minuses has decreased.



Of all the published materials, 124 publications received the mark “Tutorial” (125 in 2016).



Despite numerous requests to add markdown markup (which we added at the beginning of 2016), only 214 publications were rolled up in 2017, that is, only 1.8% of the total number (114 in 2016). We hope that in 2018 we will correct this situation in favor of the WYSIWYG editor, for which we have big plans.



With a decrease in the number of publications in 2017, the total length of records was 59,041,562 characters (in 2016, the figure was 58,856,586). This is approximately 32,801 A4 sheets, that is, almost 66 packs (500 sheets each) or a volume of 3.41 meters thick (based on the thickness of a sheet of A4 paper 0.104 mm). You have probably noticed that there are fewer articles to write in 2017, but their volume has increased. In fact, the amount of content has not decreased - just readers received more voluminous, thoughtful materials. And this trend is well seen as Hiktimes, and on Habré.



If we calculate the average number of characters per publication, then in 2017 the volume of material averaged 10,711 characters, and in 2016 - 7,982 characters, that is, 6 and 4.4 sheets, respectively. It's nice that neither Twitter nor Instagram have spoiled Hiktimes' readers - they still love Longrid and read even sooo long articles (which is confirmed by the results of our survey). And they are so fond that materials with only one video are mercilessly minus. Read useful, do not argue.







Users



At the time of publication of statistics on Hiktaimes, 673,622 users were registered, of which 117,003 (17.36%) are men, 8,922 (1.32%) are women, and 547,697 (81.3%) are undecided. With such proportions, you involuntarily think about the existence of other forms of life :)

2016

2017

Registered for the year



Full rights

ReadOnly

Read & Comment

56,728 (~ 112 per day)



807 (~ 2 per day)

52,378 (~ 143 per day)

3,235 (~ 9 per day)

63,784 (~ 175 per day)



600 (~ 2 per day)

61,066 (~ 167 per day)

2,027 (~ 6 per day)

Karma newbies

Positive

Negative



492

679



364

337

Transferred to RO (sanctions)

83

52



In 2017, 63,784 users registered (full-fledged, ReadOnly and Read & Comment), which is 12.4% more than in 2016. A total of 1966 invitations were issued this year, of which 1889 are users and UFOs, 77 are companies. At the same time, 164 invitations are in a pending state (issued, but not activated). An invitation can hang up for many reasons, but as long as it is not activated, you can always withdraw it and send it to someone who really needs it.

2016

2017

Total invitations issued

1,827

1 966

Of these, users and UFOs issued

1,741

1,889

Issued by companies

86

77

Hung up

757

1,047



Every day, 1 user gets a full account through a sandbox publication, while 240 articles have been rejected.



Hubs and Authors



The most popular hub in 2017 turned out to be the hub “Scientific Popular” (1 106 publications, 78 416 comments), and you can compare the tops for 2016 and 2017 in the tables below. The most concise in 2017 were publications on the regulation of the IT sector, the longest were health articles on geek, the most rated were articles on space exploration.



Compared to 2016, the Finance hub burst into 6th place at once, and there is an explanation for this: the blockchain, Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and ICO of all stripes, types and quality levels rushed in an endless stream. Pleases one thing - the crypt could not defeat the traditional hiktames hubs.



Our authors are in the lead among our editors who erased keys and wrote news, articles and translations day and night. The leader turned out to be marks with 605 publications, not too far behind him alizar with 552 articles (in which, by the way, the number of comments is on average 101, and the rating is 23). Lozga (81 publications) and ragequit (134 publications) pleased us with non-corporate and non-editorial authors all the year with articles on space. Well, is it weak for someone to take and write 100 publications in a year like this?



By the way, the most popular tags turned out to be space, cryptocurrency, blockchain, sound, gadgets, 3d printing, robots, arduino, science fiction, astronautics (if we decide to parse, then we have excluded the name of the company from the leaders of the tags). Almost a tag cloud for everything that happened in the technology world.

2016 year

Number of publications

Number of comments

Average comments

Average text size in characters

Average rating

one

Popular science

1,609

101 491

63

8 105

20

2

Gadgets

920

42 501

46

9,732

eleven

3

Future here

692

46,799

68

7,672

14

four

Computer hardware

652

33,799

52

10,899

sixteen

five

DIY or DIY

631

27,725

44

10 371

nineteen

6

Information Security

603

40,224

67

5,783

sixteen

7

Cosmonautics

550

34 390

63

6,986

23

eight

IT companies

521

37 180

71

5,675

14

9

Health geek

430

34 399

80

7,961

17

ten

Regulation of the IT sector

428

48 576

114

4,005

17



One year later:

2016 year

Number of publications

Number of comments

Average comments

Average text size in characters

Average rating

one

Popular science

1 106

78,416

71

11,903

26

2

Gadgets

589

29,798

51

11 182

13

3

Future here

535

40 280

75

10,111

17

four

Computer hardware

460

22 505

49

10,480

18

five

DIY or DIY

438

26,408

60

12,877

28

6

Finance

414

27,909

67

7 530

15

7

Health geek

388

35 121

91

12,529

23

eight

Regulation of the IT sector

385

46,267

120

5,284

23

9

Information Security

379

30,617

81

7,138

24

ten

Cosmonautics

343

39,552

32

10,329

32



Companies



The following companies published the most publications in 2016:



2016

2017

179 - Dronk.Ru

119 - Medgadgets

106 - ua-hosting.company

116 - Madrobots

105 - iCover.ru

91 - Audiomania

94 - Audiomania

90 - Mail.Ru Group

81 - Dj

76 - Top 3D Shop

80 - Mail.Ru Group

69 - Pult.ru

73 - Medgadgets

64 - Wirex

66 - Kingston Technology

61 - NAG

53 - IBM

51 - Kingston Technology

49 - Top 3D Shop

49 - Smile-Expo



Most of all, the total blog post rating was at:

2016

2017

2 072 - Mail.Ru Group

or

4.33% of the total rating of all publications for the year

2 527 - Mail.Ru Group

or

22.6% of the total rating of all publications for the year

1 371 - ua-hosting.company

1,210 - Medgadgets

1 132 - LampTest

1 087 - Audiomania

1,094 - Dronk.Ru

1 059 - Pult.ru

1,013 - Audiomania

986 - Madrobots

773 - Kingston Technology

981 - LampTest

766 - iCover.ru

976 - NAG

603 - Wirex

814 - MakeItLab

552 - Intel

788 - Wirex

543 - Gearbest.com

778 - Lakhta Center



Comments

2016

2017

Total

428 572

356 454

Positive

Negative

137,071 (31.98%)

25,503 (6%)

111,782 (31.36%)

22,921 (6.43%)

Total rating of all

Votes were cast

Of these advantages

Of which cons

320 896

606,788

463 842

142 946

221,135

423 833

322 484

101 349

Removed

1161

774

Total Comment Length

107 769 871 characters

122,292,242 characters

Top commentators

2 952 - vconst

2 778 - Mad__Max

2 166 - black_semargl

2,137 - 0xd34df00d

2 017 - Pakos

1 921 - Meklon

1,832 - VenomBlood

1,822 - saboteur_kiev

1,750 - idiv

1 597 - MTyrz

5 166 - BigBeaver

3 307 - vconst

3 192 - Valerij56

2 873 - black_semargl

2 662 - Zenitchik

2,062 - dimm_ddr

2 054 - sumanai

1,706 - u010602

1,659 - VenomBlood

1 579 - JohnHenry89

As you can see, to get the top commentators, it is enough to leave 5-14 comments daily for a year.



Top 10 most awesome comments in 2017



+ 128 | + 119 | + 99 | + 97 | + 91 | + 88 | + 87 | + 79 | + 77 | + 77



Top 10 most mined comments in 2017



- 113 | - 89 | - 78 | - 76 | - 74 | - 73 | - 72 | - 71 | - 69 | - 64



Happy New Year!



The year of the IT specialist (programmer, tester, sysadmin, etc.) is always more than a year - these are new releases, and endless commits, tickets, unintelligible users, nervous days. Such is the situation in this world, that it is the IT environment that has become in many ways to determine what the nearest future will be. Therefore, let us do together the year 2018 so that all technologies and innovations are in the name of good. We, in turn, will try to keep the level, to develop and make Habr and Hiktimes more convenient, more useful and richer.



Happy New Year!



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