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• 11 November 2012 22:02:46

  Skyrim Nexus - One year on

  posted by Dark0ne Site News
  We’ve already got two articles up in the news looking back on Skyrim and celebrating its one year anniversary, but I just wanted to make a quick article celebrating one year of Skyrim mods on Skyrim Nexus, and to dissect the publically available site stats information to publicise some sensationalist figures. Because I kind of like doing it myself from time to time, and I thought I’d share my findings.
  
  By applying some simple maths to the stats we can work out some pretty interesting stuff. Using 365 days in a year, and 86,400 seconds in a day, lets get cracking.
  
  New file entries
  Total: 23,066
  Per day: 63
  
  Downloadable (uploaded) files
  Total: 76,208
  Per day: 209
  
  Downloads
  Total: 154,972,860
  Per day: 424,583
  Per second: 5
  
  Members with files (e.g. mod authors)
  Total: 9,114
  Per day: 25
  
  File views (page views on file pages)
  Total: 679,734,913
  Per day: 1,862,287
  Per second: 22
  
  File endorsements
  Total: 1,469,037
  Per day: 4,025
  Per minute: 3
  
  Image Share images
  Total: 116,357
  Per day: 319
  
  Image Share image views
  Total: 38,117,613
  Per day: 104,432
  Per second: 1
  
  Since Skyrim’s release we’ve had over 2.17 million new members join the Nexus network. While Skyrim can’t take credit for all those registrations, it can take credit for a large proportion of them. Similarly, many people forget that the Creation Kit didn’t actually come out until 3 months after the release of Skyrim, in February 2012, so we’ve only had 9 months of CK goodness so far. So no folks, Skyrim modding certainly isn’t dying. Frankly I think the best is yet to come.

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