Envato user statistics - who do they include?

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I am curious about some info here that I saw while waiting on a large program to compile…

Envato claims to have over 6.3 million members… I assume that is made up of buyers and authors…

I found a page that lists the number of badges that have been issued and I believe that, like me, if you don’t collect badges, and you are a buyer only, you have two mandatory badges issued/displayed… number of years and number of purchases…

https://forums.envato.com/badges

so… I see the number of people who have the various collector amounts…

Collector Level 1 7774
Collector Level 2 3224
Collector Level 3 837
Collector Level 4 754
Collector Level 5 36
Collector Level 6 16

This comes to a total of 12,641 people who have bought something… or does it?

I can’t believe that out of 6.3 million members, only 12,641 have bought something… the numbers don’t add up…

So… what do these numbers mean? I am a Level 5 Collector… and it appears that there are only 35 other people with that level of purchases? … I don’t think so.

The only thing I can think of is that these numbers only represent the number of people registered on the forums and that this is their breakup etc… does anybody know?

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The badge numbers only represent users who have logged into the new forums since we started them in late August. So those numbers shouldn’t be relied on :smiley:

Hope that helps!

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It’s clear :smile:

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we all know that statistics are sometimes a bit swollen out of advertising issues and it doesn’t really matter what is the exact number anyway , does it?

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I would hardly call these statistics swollen… :slight_smile: it couldn’t be more of the opposite I think… and no it doesn’t matter at all… but I was killing time and noticed a quite massive difference in the numbers so I thought I’d ask…