Cumulative count of topics and posts seems like a useful analytic. I would expect something like that on the Admin dashboard or somewhere else. Did I overlook it? If not, that’s a feature request. Thanks!

You can see the topics/posts totals on the /about page under site statistics.

This is great, thank you. One thing I noticed is that my post count is suspiciously high. It’s 10:1 to my Topic count (where my topic count is a plausible number of 200), and just a quick skim of topics doesn’t suggest my average should be anywhere near 10:1. Is there anything I might not be considering in what constitutes a post? I could prove this by using Javascript to count the number of replies + the number of topic rows but I’m fairly confident in my anecdotal analysis.

Now that sounds feasible – if a lot of my users engaged with discobot, they had some long conversations. Is there a place I can see the count of PMs? I saw someone else talking about how people weren’t engaging their discobot. How can one tell?

Ah, answer to my own question: discobot is a user, so I can see she has 1000 posts, which accounts for about half of the total posts I’m seeing. Everything is fine. Thanks @jomaxro.

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jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld) May 17, 2019, 4:56pm 4

Do you have a large number of PMs on your site? I’m fairly certain the post count includes PM replies, not just public topics.

Topic		Replies	Views
/about shows inflated post count Product Support	2	654	June 28, 2019
Sum up of topics and posts Data & reporting	2	165	August 25, 2025
What's a Post? (Discourse API question) Development	7	1144	August 24, 2021
Topics and posts in reports Product Support	2	199	November 26, 2024
Ratio of topics to posts - and what does this tell us about our communities Community Building	9	2312	August 3, 2015

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