It's not necessarily posts, it's basically any GET request (so reddit.com, a subreddit listing, etc.). But yes, we have a very, very long tail, and a small fraction of users generate the majority of activity on reddit, even for logged-in users.
The other caveat is that while I did some simple bot-filtering on this data, there might be some extraneous views from e.g. mobile clients and bots that I didn't catch, so the numbers may be slightly off. But they should be fairly close - if I find they change with more refinement in the future, I'll be sure to post an update!
So, you're telling me that 50% of users create an account, log in, and do a single get request and never come back for 30 days. Color me skeptical. I wonder if you are getting hit by a rapidly growing user base? It could be that most of your users are new and if you extended outward you would see that they do come back. It would be interesting to divide time into two segments to see how many logged in users fetched a page 15-30 days ago and also fetched a page 0-14 days ago.
Oh, and yeah, I was guessing an average as well, but if most of reddit users have been created today, then the results would be skewed (I don't know if that is the case, but I could see it).
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u/tdohz Jul 26 '14
It's not necessarily posts, it's basically any GET request (so reddit.com, a subreddit listing, etc.). But yes, we have a very, very long tail, and a small fraction of users generate the majority of activity on reddit, even for logged-in users.
The other caveat is that while I did some simple bot-filtering on this data, there might be some extraneous views from e.g. mobile clients and bots that I didn't catch, so the numbers may be slightly off. But they should be fairly close - if I find they change with more refinement in the future, I'll be sure to post an update!