Message board statistics?

[partial]

/I have noticed that the number of people viewing different threads has varied greatly over the months that I have been here.

When I was first diagnosed I always saw that there were 700+ people viewing the main psoriasis part of the forum. I have seen a decrease over the last few months.

My question-Are there statistics available over the months/years that show any trends related to new members/number of hits on the site/number of new posts/etc. My thoughts are that weather/seasons/incidents that cause stress/etc may have some impact on psoriasis in general. I was wondering if there are statistics availible related to this website to show any trends?

I figure that looking at trends here might help shed some light on seasonal issues with psoriasis, the impact of significant historical events, etc as they relate to psoriasis. I wonder if there was a spike, or decrease after 9/11 (for me it before the psoriasis kicked in, but really impacted my thought processes. I didn't worry about my own issues, but thought more globally and about those who were directly dealing with the loss of family).

Just a thought, might be something interesting to look at.

[ouchyk]

Hi partial,

yes there are stats available, I can't remember exactly what they were as we were told during leaders training in LV.

I would think the reason the numbers are down ( if they are in fact down that is we only did current numbers ) is the advent of newer medications that are so very helpful for us. Once in a while you might notice a spike when the " Advance Magazine " goes out quarterly or perhaps when the lovely winter weather is upon us.

Of course this is presumptuous on my part as I really don't know...

and the boards creation as we know it now as in " open to all and not by membership " occured after 2001 if I have my facts right, but it would be interesting to know the trends.

Take care,
Karen

[davidk46219]

Another reason is during the summer months P clears up for a lot of the people and guess what when they are not bothered by it they dont come on as much We had the same thing on the MSN Psoriasis Support Group
DaveK

[alli]

Dave,
It isn't only the message boards that get slower in the summer months, LOL!! My derms who migrated from the cold northeast coast have told me that they could tell the seasons by the P patients in their offices when they practiced up North :)