As I like to do every year, here are the top 10 people who emailed me this year:
- Toni Schneider — 914
- Maya Desai — 672
- Mom — 475
- Raanan Bar-Cohen — 284
- Barry Abrahamson — 276
- Rose Goldman — 256
- Jane Wells — 193
- Michael Pick — 185
- Donncha O Caoimh — 179
- Alex Shiels — 167
Email is my most frequently used social network, so it’s always interesting to see the trends.
This year I got 11,459 emails consider “important” by my script, or about 34 a day, and 53,030 “other” emails, excluding spam, mailing lists, and junk.
For the first time, I’ve decided to take a look at my outgoing emails as well, of which there were 9,101 of to 2,087 unique people, and here’s that list. These are less accurate because an email can be “to:” multiple people, or cc:s, but only ever From: one person, so the stats aren’t entirely correct for the to-list.
- Toni Schneider — 524
- Raanan Bar-Cohen — 450
- Maya Desai — 428
- Barry Abrahamson — 243
- Rose Goldman — 212
- Alex Shiels — 203
- My Matt.WP.com moblog post-by-email address — 148
- Michael Pick — 139
- WordPress.com Support — 123
- Andy Skelton — 108
I obviously need to email my Mom more. Here are my posting statistics:
| Posts | Avg. Words | Total Words | Avg. Comments | Total Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 482 | 105 | 50,800 | 2 | 980 |
| 2003 | 559 | 130 | 73,009 | 3 | 1,723 |
| 2004 | 1,108 | 49 | 55,025 | 5 | 6,594 |
| 2005 | 703 | 43 | 30,485 | 9 | 6,343 |
| 2006 | 340 | 65 | 22,173 | 10 | 3,662 |
| 2007 | 360 | 56 | 20,408 | 16 | 6,091 |
| 2008 | 314 | 48 | 15,368 | 21 | 6,636 |
| 2009 | 182 | 80 | 14,675 | 23 | 4,280 |
My number of posts went down, but more words per post, so I’m posting less but meatier things. I made 391 comments myself last year, and it fell off rapidly after that. I would like to get more regular commenters next year, maybe by making the comment form more obvious on the photo pages. Photo pages draw the most repeat traffic.
I’m curious about travel stats, but haven’t gotten annual report from Dopplr yet.
Here were the top posts for 2009:
aww, Mum doesn’t have a blog?
I’m going to e-mail you more just to get on this list this year.
Oh… can’t get rid of me! 😉
How do you statistically determine who you emailed how many times? What email program do you use?
For sent just been parsing my Sent Maildir with a PHP script.
Interesting stats, I love looking at things like this for my own project’s – even stats packages for websites that I have very little involvement with fascinate me, especially comparing what those people are doing to how I use that site. I don’t do personal ones though, maybe this post will inspire me when I get time.
Never thought about who I email the most, but it’s gotta be my people at work. The email never stops there, probably get 100 emails a day about stupid stuff.
Whoa, shiny!
With IM, social websites, and cell phone, I find myself using email very little (outside the office).
Love stats like these and still stand in awe over how well you manage your email.
….your poor mother, tho…
Would love to find a way to do this on my Gmail account. Anyone know of a service and/or method?
“This year I got 11,459 emails consider ‘important’ by my script…” Any hints on how you built your script? I’m always interested in strategies for software-based mail triage (even if I only get a fraction of your volume 😉 )
It is basically a PHP script that’s run via procmail on everything incoming, and matches that with a email priority lookup.
Does this mean, that you don’t answer to your mom Mails ??? Shame on you !!! 😀