[Suggestion] "Activity over past 24 hours" graphic and Sparklines

Erik

Erik

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This is not self-promotion: Floren saw the graphic in my signature and suggested I open a new suggestion thread on it, so I did. :)

Basically, it would be really cool to have a little activity graph like the one in my signature displayed on the homepage, either in the Members Online Now or Forum Statistics boxes. These little graphs are often referred to as "Sparklines," and are used around the web for displaying data in a small and easy-to-understand. It would be really cool to see them integrated in many places within the XenForo software.

For a little more technical detail on my signature:
I'm running a cron job that parses the homepage every 15 minutes, then enters the stats (Visitors/Members/Guests online) into a database. It then reads back all the entries in the database from the last 24 hours, and uses a slightly modified PHP Sparklines implentation to render out the graph to a file. :)

I plan to keep this running indefinitely, which means in two years I can produce a massive graph of the activity of the XenForo forums since this date, with an accuracy of 15 minute intervals. It should be pretty cool to see. :)

I'm including the file here in case I change my signature in the future:
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I'm all for statistics, but a 24 hour graph w/o any values only confirms that we live in a world with sleep/wake cycles. I cannot imagine how that could be useful. What am I overlooking?

I seek trends, and they don't reveal themselves in 24 hour chunks.
 
Awesome-o said:
I'm all for statistics, but a 24 hour graph w/o any values only confirms that we live in a world with sleep/wake cycles. I cannot imagine how that could be useful. What am I overlooking?

I seek trends, and they don't reveal themselves in 24 hour chunks.
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Completely agree, not sure why this gets so many likes while other much more important suggestions get less. No offence to anyone, but it does make little sense to me.

BTW see Analytics if you like to see graphs about your forum.
 
Something like this is actually very easy to do... I've made something like this in my own mods in the past...
 

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In my signature. And yes, it is quite a big spike. :)
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Is it possible for you to produce one that covers a couple of days before IB's announcement and now? I can see the spike but I'd like to see just how much activity has changed from the normal pattern.
 
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