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Originally Posted by Phalynx

1) Correct
2) Correct
3) Before calculation there is no average PPD available. Average PPD is calculated from pulling the 10 most active users within posts, visitormessage, group discussions, blog entries from the database.
4) Correct

Thanks for your reply.

It is the 3rd step that really needs a better explanation. I know there is no PPD available. How exactly it is calculated is where I'm confused. Here's an example.

Total counts over last 21 days for top 10 active users:

user A: 175 counts (8.3333 PPD)
user B: 170 counts (8.0952 PPD)
user C: 165 counts (7.8571 PPD)
user D: 165 counts (7.8571 PPD)
user E: 160 counts (7.6190 PPD)
user F: 160 counts (7.6190 PPD)
user G: 150 counts (7.1429 PPD)
user H: 155 counts (7.3810 PPD)
user I: 145 counts (6.9048 PPD)

Total count = 1545
PPD = 7.3571 (which is the average posts per day of the top 10 active users).

Based on this wouldn't user A have an active percent of 113.3% = 100 *8.3333 / 7.3571?

The reason I want to know the gory details is because when I changed the timeframe from 60 days to 21 days the activity percents changed considerably. What would cause this? An average taken over 21 days compared to 60 days shouldn't make a big difference.