# Total Number of Topics and Posts
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [17 mei 2019 om 15:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036 "2019-05-17T15:46:16Z")
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### Author:  [@John\_Lehmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John_Lehmann)
#### Post date: [17 mei 2019 om 15:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036/1 "2019-05-17T15:46:16Z")
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!
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [17 mei 2019 om 15:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036/2 "2019-05-17T15:48:29Z")
You can see the topics/posts totals on the `/about` page under site statistics.
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### Author:  [@John\_Lehmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John_Lehmann)
#### Post date: [17 mei 2019 om 16:49 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036/3 "2019-05-17T16:49:46Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [17 mei 2019 om 16:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036/4 "2019-05-17T16:56:42Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@John\_Lehmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John_Lehmann)
#### Post date: [17 mei 2019 om 18:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036/5 "2019-05-17T18:23:37Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@John\_Lehmann](https://meta.discourse.org/u/John_Lehmann)
#### Post date: [17 mei 2019 om 19:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036/6 "2019-05-17T19:46:58Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [23 januari 2023 om 03:18 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036/8 "2023-01-23T03:18:56Z")
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [22 februari 2023 om 03:19 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-number-of-topics-and-posts/118036/9 "2023-02-22T03:19:19Z")
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