Hi, As I was wondering about mailing list statistics tool, I found http://freshmeat.net/projects/mls ; to see the kind of results it allows to get, I ran it on the public-html mailboxes, with the results below.
Dom Statistics from 6.3.2007 to 8.6.2010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ***** People who have written most messages: +----+-----Author-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+ | 1 | [email protected] | 2245 | 7.30 % | | 2 | [email protected] | 2080 | 6.76 % | | 3 | [email protected] | 1210 | 3.93 % | | 4 | [email protected] | 1176 | 3.82 % | | 5 | [email protected] | 823 | 2.67 % | | 6 | [email protected] | 814 | 2.65 % | | 7 | [email protected] | 788 | 2.56 % | | 8 | [email protected] | 721 | 2.34 % | | 9 | [email protected] | 642 | 2.09 % | | 10 | [email protected] | 621 | 2.02 % | +----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+ | | other |19647 | 63.86 % | +----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+ ***** Best authors, by total size of their messages (w/o quoting): +----+-----Author-------------------------------------------+-KBytes-+ | 1 | [email protected] | 3350.7 | | 2 | [email protected] | 2889.0 | | 3 | [email protected] | 2105.7 | | 4 | [email protected] | 1759.1 | | 5 | [email protected] | 1284.8 | | 6 | [email protected] | 1088.7 | | 7 | [email protected] | 1085.3 | | 8 | [email protected] | 1063.1 | | 9 | [email protected] | 838.4 | | 10 | [email protected] | 789.0 | +----+------------------------------------------------------+--------+ ***** Best authors, by average size of their message (w/o quoting): +----+-----Author--------------------------------------------+-bytes-+ | 1 | [email protected] | 82347 | | 2 | [email protected] | 38961 | | 3 | [email protected] | 21289 | | 4 | [email protected] | 21034 | | 5 | [email protected] | 15161 | | 6 | [email protected] | 14146 | | 7 | [email protected] | 13359 | | 8 | [email protected] | 12639 | | 9 | [email protected] | 12348 | | 10 | [email protected] | 12045 | +----+-------------------------------------------------------+-------+ ***** Table showing the most successful subjects: +----+----Subject-----------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+ | 1 | Cleaning House | 249 | 0.81 % | | 2 | ISSUE-41/ACTION-97 decentralized-extensibili | 200 | 0.65 % | | 3 | Support Existing Content | 195 | 0.63 % | | 4 | <iframe doc=""> | 159 | 0.52 % | | 5 | Versioning and html[5] | 158 | 0.51 % | | 6 | handling fallback content for still images | 143 | 0.46 % | | 7 | Exploring new vocabularies for HTML | 131 | 0.43 % | | 8 | ISSUE-53: mediatypereg - suggest closing on | 129 | 0.42 % | | 9 | Codecs for <video> and <audio> | 108 | 0.35 % | | 10 | what is dt? | 108 | 0.35 % | +----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+ | | other |29187 | 94.86 % | +----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+ ***** Most used email clients: +----+----Mailer------------------------------------+--Msg-+-Percent-+ | 1 | (unknown) |10350 | 33.64 % | | 2 | Mozilla/5.x | 3188 | 10.36 % | | 3 | Apple Mail (2.752.2) | 1198 | 3.89 % | | 4 | Apple Mail (2.752.3) | 779 | 2.53 % | | 5 | Apple Mail (2.936) | 735 | 2.39 % | | 6 | Mutt | 708 | 2.30 % | | 7 | Apple Mail (2.1077) | 651 | 2.12 % | | 8 | Apple Mail (2.930.3) | 584 | 1.90 % | | 9 | Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x | 460 | 1.50 % | | 10 | Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) | 440 | 1.43 % | +----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+ | | other |11674 | 37.94 % | +----+----------------------------------------------+------+---------+ ***** Table of maximal quoting: +----+-----Author------------------------------------------+-Percent-+ | 1 | [email protected] | 97.23 % | | 2 | [email protected] | 96.29 % | | 3 | [email protected] | 95.71 % | | 4 | [email protected] | 95.41 % | | 5 | [email protected] | 95.23 % | | 6 | [email protected] | 92.38 % | | 7 | [email protected] | 91.17 % | | 8 | [email protected] | 90.85 % | | 9 | [email protected] | 89.37 % | | 10 | [email protected] | 89.14 % | +----+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+ | | average | 38.23 % | +----+-----------------------------------------------------+---------+ ***** Graph showing number of messages written during hours of day: 100% -------------------#----------------------------- - 2113 90% -------------------#-#-#-#----------------------- msgs 80% -------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#------------- 70% -------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#------------- 60% -------------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#----------- 50% -----------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- 40% -#---------------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- 30% -#-#-----------#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- 20% -#-#-#-#-----#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- 10% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * hour 0 5 11 17 23 !!!!! Warning: 54 message(s) not counted. ***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of month: 100% -------------------------------------#------------------------- - 1413 90% -#-----------------------------------#------------------------- msgs 80% -#-#-#-#-----------------------------#------------------------- 70% -#-#-#-#-#-#-----------------#-#-#-#-#-----#-#-#-#-----#---#--- 60% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-------#-#---#-#-#-#-#-#---#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#--- 50% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#--- 40% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- 30% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- 20% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- 10% -#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#-#- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * day 1 6 12 18 24 31 !!!!! Warning: 54 message(s) not counted. ***** Graph showing number of messages written during days of week: 100% ---------#------------------- - 5434 90% -#---#---#---#--------------- msgs 80% -#---#---#---#---#----------- 70% -#---#---#---#---#----------- 60% -#---#---#---#---#----------- 50% -#---#---#---#---#----------- 40% -#---#---#---#---#---#---#--- 30% -#---#---#---#---#---#---#--- 20% -#---#---#---#---#---#---#--- 10% -#---#---#---#---#---#---#--- * * * * * * * Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun !!!!! Warning: 54 message(s) not counted. ***** Maximal quoting: Author : [email protected] Subject : ECMA TC 39 / W3C HTML and WebApps WG coordination Date : Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:09:36 +0000 Quote ratio: 99.72% / 2122 bytes ***** Longest message: Author : [email protected] Subject : CHANGE PROPOSAL: Table Summary Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:33:45 +0000 Size : 207757 bytes ***** Most successful subject: Subject : Cleaning House No. of msgs: 249 Total size : 446890 bytes ***** Final summary: Total number of messages: 30767 Total number of different authors: 767 Total number of different subjects: 6228 Total size of messages (w/o headers): 77506487 bytes Average size of a message: 2519 bytes ***** Generated by MailListStat v1.3, (C) 2001-2003 <marki (at) nexin.sk> ***** See http://freshmeat.net/projects/mls for details...
