# Tracking unique contributors

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-unique-contributors/162937
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-unique-contributors/162937 "2020-09-03T15:45:20Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2020, 4:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tracking-unique-contributors/162937/2 "2020-09-03T16:31:03Z")

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> [@lydia](#):
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> how to determine the number of unique contributors that my forum has during a six-week period.

If you go to your site’s admin dashboard and click on the “Reports” link, you’ll be taken to a page that lists all the reports that are available on your site. There isn’t a report that returns unique contributors, but there are a few reports that could give you some useful data:

- User Visits (the number of unique user visits per day)
- New Contributors (the number of users who made their first post during the report period)

You could get the exact data you are looking for if your site had the [Data Explorer plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/data-explorer-plugin/32566) installed on it. For sites on our hosting, the [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) plugin is available on Business and Enterprise plans.

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