How does DarkDemon stack up as an animation community?
A statistical analysis of DarkDemon, looking at the figures generated by the forum, and comparing it to DarkDemon's peers.
The following websites were also used in this experiment: StickPage, PivotAnimation, FluidAnims and Droidz; considered by many to be the most popular stick animation sites.
The data was collected on April 18th 2012.
Graphs created by Strider.
Community Size
Size of Community
StickPage has a community of 80942 members
PivotAnimation has a community of 8294 members
FluidAnims has a community of 20155 member
Droidz has a community of 19363 members
DarkDemon has a community of 22418 members, making it the second largest stick animation community.
User Retainment
A large community is all well and good, but if no one posts, what's the point? With web technology such as bots, and users being turned away by closer inspection of the community, the next category to look at was user retainment.
Number of users with one post or more
Of all of StickPage's members, 4530 of them has one post or more, of all the users that join only 6% of them post.
Of all of PivotAnimation's members, 800 of them has one post or more, of all the users that join only 10% of them post.
Of all of FluidAnim's members, 5250 of them has one post or more, of all the users that join 26% of them post.
Of all of Droidz's members, 7100 of them has one post or more,of all the users that join
37% of them post.
Percentage of registered users that post on site
Of all of DarkDemon's members, 10850 of them has one post or more, of all the users that join 48% of them post.
Active Users
Having one post or more is hardly an active community, and it could be argued that such a high percentage is due to an influx of bots (Which it isn't), so the next criteria was examining the number of active users in each community; once a user decided to join and post, how many actually stayed within the community?
Number of users with more than 100 posts
Of all of StickPage's members, 1170 of them has more than 100 posts, of all the users that join only 1.4% of them stay active.
Of all of PivotAnimation's members, 72 of them has more than 100 posts, of all the users that join only 0.8% of them stay active.
Of all of FluidAnim's members, 599 of them has more than 100 posts, of all the users that join 3% of them stay active.
Of all of Droidz's members, 700 of them has more than 100 posts,of all the users that join 4% of them stay active.
Percentage of registered users with more than 100 posts
Of all of DarkDemon's members, 1303 of them has more than 100 posts,of all the users that join 6% of them stay active.
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And there's more fun statistics to come! As well as some explanations and insights; stay classy DarkDemon
