[Feature Request] Number of days between blogposts

Ahhh, ok, that’s a good idea. If a new blog has posts on the following days…

Monday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Wednesday
Friday
Saturday

The gaps would be 2 0 0 2 1. So…

0 day -> 2
1 day -> 1
2 days -> 2

Possibly a similar thing for “number of posts per day” too. I can always make it so that graphs can be removed by users if they are not useful (as happens with the author bar chart).

I had a “eureka moment” the other day about how I’m going to do the “date range” page so I can’t wait to add that and make these charts too. Should be soon.

Thanks Johannes! All feedback very much appreciated!

Neil

Added to the main page… I’m not entirely happy with it so it’s a BETA!

It should work on anything over PHP 5.3.

Hey Neil,

nice. Thanks for that!

I am trying to reproduce the values but I have some discrepancies. Maybe your script does count one day as “between 24 and 47 hours” rather than “day of month has changed”?

For example, in 2013 I published 24 posts. That is, 23x days between posts. Your script gives me the following, while I marked my calculations by hand with an “x” behind each line:

1 days: 2 posts x
2 days: 1 posts xx
3 days: 3 posts xx
4 days: 0 posts x
5 days: 4 posts x
6 days: 2 posts xxxx
7 days: 2 posts x
8 days: 0 posts xx
9 days: 1 posts x
10 days: 1 posts
11 days: 1 posts xx
12 days: 1 posts x
13 days: 1 posts x
17 days: 1 posts
18 days: 0 posts x
23 days: 1 posts
24 days: 0 posts x
27 days: 1 posts x
33 days: 1 posts x

So in sum, it is correct, but with some differences.
What do you think?

Thanks Johannes!

I noticed that too. Like you say, it’s using the time difference between two posts instead of the actual date they’re posted on. I was getting similar readings to you, i.e. not exactly like I was expecting.

The only solution is to ignore the time and just use the difference in the dates. This should be fairly simple to do and I think the results would look better.

Thanks for your feedback, should get this fixed in the next day or so.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by shortdark.

3.1.14 should be fixed now. Sorry about that. It should use the actual dates now, but please let me know if it works for you.

Yeah, nice, now it’s exactly what I was expecting.
Thanks a lot, Neil!

No probs ??

BTW, I re-worked the “Days Between Posts” in the new version (3.1.16). Also, “Compare Years” is also added. And “Words Per Post” and “Days Between Posts” are added to the widget.

This is the first bar chart where the “All-time” stats are different to the individual years because the individual years do not consider the previous post if the previous post was last year.

The default maximum interval is 30 days, but you can increase it up to a maximum of 80 days in the settings page. On my test blog, I had an interval of 318 days which was making the “Compare Years” script timeout.

I hope it continues to work for you.