Geocaching charted: fab idea!

[+terratin]

Thanks a lot GS. That's some very nice stats, and I hope we'll see this more often from now on. Lets say every 6 months? Or a yearly summary of sorts?

Biggest surprises for me:

most logged cache type: traditional. I'd hoped it was EarthCache

countries visited: 8! Though not first visits. That's just 5 (though the last one might not be included)

favourite points awarded: 4! (Yeah, I'm very stingy when it comes to using FPs)

[+Vicious Cycle]

39 DNFs logged this year so far. I better pick up the pace. I'm falling behind. 

[+Max and 99]

My last notification like this was in August of 2022, so once a year.

46 DNFs from me so far this year. 

[+lee737]

Yes, that is cool - this has been our biggest year by far.... >1000 finds so far, 42 hides (my son and I conbined)  and  23 DNFs.

Edited June 29, 2023 by lee737

[+CAVinoGal]

Hubby saw the email and then we compared, since we do the majority of our caching together...the biggest difference was in our DNF's logged, because I typically log it when we cache together (2 DNF's for the same search seems redundant to me...).  I posted 21 DNF's with 258 finds to date; he posted 0.  The other stats were interesting to see laid out as well.

[+barefootjeff]

1 hour ago, lee737 said:

Yes, that is cool - this has been our biggest year by far.... >1000 finds so far, 42 hides (my son and I conbined)  and  23 DNFs.

 

100 finds, 3 hides (I have another currently sitting in the review queue) and 10 DNFs. The latter surprised me a bit when I saw it but it's right, maybe with the new glasses I got last week I'll do better. Incidently, only one of those caches was actually missing and was quickly replaced by its owner, the others I just couldn't find, with three I've since redeemed on a second visit.

[+thebruce0]

I haven't been holding back from posting DNFs. But I wonder how many people look at that number and want to reduce the dnfs! But take that to mean, well, just don't post as many   We've seen that debate before, whether to post DNFs.  I hope people aren't discouraged from posting DNFs just for the stats, but still stick to posting them if otherwise wouldn't - but instead make more effort to find caches and hope for a better find rate. heh

Edited June 30, 2023 by thebruce0

[+lee737]

I wouldn't dream of not posting a DNF.... it is our record - and it helps the CO/others.

Especially since the blue frownies started being used, they are useful. I'd like to be able to colour other icons as well....

[+TriciaG]

Where's a link to this, please?

[+HuggableHamster]

22 minutes ago, TriciaG said:

Where's a link to this, please?

I got mine in an email.

[+MartyBartfast]

Mine said 3 countries visited, though I've only visited 2! I suspect the third one is because I logged GC9FAVE so it counted USA.

[+TriciaG]

1 hour ago, HuggableHamster said:

I got mine in an email.

Ah. I unsubscribed from their newsletter, so I probably unsubscribed from this as well.

[+Stamp My Art]

Hmmm... I did not get this email. I am subscribed to the Newsletter, but this I did not receive.

[+Cheminer Will]

15 hours ago, Stamp My Art said:

Hmmm... I did not get this email. I am subscribed to the Newsletter, but this I did not receive.

Same here.

[+sue&tony]

Slowing down a bit on the geocaching front but still get out while we can now and again  good idea this charted stats can see how you doing 

[+steben6]

I got my stats in an email today.  My chart says my best caching day was 05/06/23, when I found 48 caches.  I only found eight caches that day.  How do I get this fixed?

 

[+Hügh]

5 minutes ago, steben6 said:

I got my stats in an email today.  My chart says my best caching day was 05/06/23, when I found 48 caches.  I only found eight caches that day.  How do I get this fixed?

 

You did find 48 caches; 40 were Adventure Lab caches:

 

- f7353d15-7ff8-4b34-968c-f3d11110ebf3 'Splash Cache!'
- 13b15cbd-b171-4047-b782-7849675d65a0 'Sales!'
- f849aae6-c126-4c7e-9a16-9e97c4f520e1 'The Spring Flingway!'
- 084390b6-a376-44e0-b520-073ccf86f099 'Clown Car!'
- 2337e264-4e1f-4b5c-87dd-8a1dd1517d28 'Welcome!'
- d8ae381c-d39e-4763-bcb0-141ffc41c5bd 'Sour Grapes!'
- a0d291f6-0336-4f41-b018-8a356367d8a4 'Raffle & Auction!'
- 1c405ed9-12a8-44d8-947a-c9474e24f901 'Trackables!'
- c6665c94-22a1-4cec-81e4-0981e6052891 'Under Pressure by rragan'
- 591d5399-7610-41d1-9626-140ccc232c37 'Venona's Secret Message by rragan'
- 716f7c38-1e33-4124-a071-a7083700f721 'Question 10...'
- 6a4819de-f44b-4c96-b80a-695049d3f56a 'Question 9...'
- bb30f156-fdb1-469f-9865-f29cc94ba23e 'Question 8...'
- 5f1e6ad7-84a3-4acc-b751-45938821d4b6 'Question 7...'
- d3d8e65d-080d-4636-88b4-9ebe8d820a66 'Question 6...'
- 07209182-81aa-4acf-9fab-494641a89124 'Question 5...'
- 9bccaf62-ac50-4174-bf0c-0baad348b308 'Question 4...'
- c1913edd-c2b4-4fc0-b2a5-0a2e0a68d38d 'Question 3...'
- 3e4fa6f8-92e7-412d-93f5-f63f1666cb04 'Question 2...'
- 9877b524-c38a-4dc0-ad1f-0dd96f4626c8 'Question 1...'
- 455d0661-bf3f-4191-abbe-7a5b15e9c73b 'All Keyed Up by foomanjoo'
- 99601b96-024c-4f84-b55c-a66abe399686 'All Stirred Up by rragan'
- 601fe6b4-4cad-4dc6-a3c3-cbdf0dff77aa 'Miss-Direction by Balcanthez'
- 72c28d3a-7b02-4212-915d-c35f64455e4c 'Dragon Strongbox by BELLontheMOVE'
- a95f98a9-ae20-47e2-9095-f1040a0f1701 'GEO-MEMORY RACE by BELLontheMOVE'
- 7c433e87-1b97-4aff-a46c-36a817afbeda 'Under Pressure by maddmaxxawr'
- d10352cc-ce63-40d1-95f9-c9fc09ac87f2 'The Old Man by macgyverandflo'
- 3c02c4f6-4aa4-45b0-8391-96d65ac73f12 'Safe Cracker by macgyverandflo'
- 9d6c2ac9-8432-4d35-b2c5-602ac5927210 'Moldy Swiss Cheese by maddmaxxawr'
- 417f4aa7-9450-4d0c-bee3-2778b80badf3 'Slammagen (Pipe Dream) by maddmaxxawr'
- ed595a6b-7f9a-4a0d-b2dc-52eeddb65044 'But How Do I Log It? by maddmaxxawr'
- d4192d4f-b859-48ff-bf94-1d053acc849e 'Click Out of 1 by JaidenK'
- 98267571-5f27-4678-bdd1-6ebf32890bb4 'Puzzled by macgyverandflo'
- a0034aa1-dc66-42f5-9802-7bf9558cba15 'Merry-Go-Found by BELLontheMove'
- d063060a-8947-4566-8181-0c9bfc06e220 'Geo-Hangman by Balcanthez'
- ed4f549d-a69c-40d0-bb6a-b33245600592 'Jed by mcgyverandflo'
- 71a16495-be7b-4f9c-9c3e-f4b9870365fd 'Games!'
- 566e47fa-7d43-4550-b17e-afdf3e842c8c 'Signal!'
- 180b96ee-91c8-4b9b-83ac-7c2cc38f19a6 'briX hotel by BELLontheMOVE'
- df0e55ad-0a87-4319-ab71-fe6d35a477e7 'Cache and Release by Minymag'
- GCA83Q6 'Spring Fling '23 Was Here!'
- GCA2P0P 'Spring Fling '23'
- GC92HFB 'briX hotel (GADGET CACHE and Travel Bug Hotel)'
- GC98A86 'Geo-Hangman'
- GCA86Z6 'Fishy Fishy '
- GC9NJDX 'what3wordles'
- GCA6J2F 'Miss Direction'
- GC47CQ5 'HHunter can see Wally; can you? (gc47cq5)'

 

[+steben6]

6 hours ago, Hügh said:

 

You did find 48 caches; 40 were Adventure Lab caches:

 

- f7353d15-7ff8-4b34-968c-f3d11110ebf3 'Splash Cache!'
- 13b15cbd-b171-4047-b782-7849675d65a0 'Sales!'
- f849aae6-c126-4c7e-9a16-9e97c4f520e1 'The Spring Flingway!'
- 084390b6-a376-44e0-b520-073ccf86f099 'Clown Car!'
- 2337e264-4e1f-4b5c-87dd-8a1dd1517d28 'Welcome!'
- d8ae381c-d39e-4763-bcb0-141ffc41c5bd 'Sour Grapes!'
- a0d291f6-0336-4f41-b018-8a356367d8a4 'Raffle & Auction!'
- 1c405ed9-12a8-44d8-947a-c9474e24f901 'Trackables!'
- c6665c94-22a1-4cec-81e4-0981e6052891 'Under Pressure by rragan'
- 591d5399-7610-41d1-9626-140ccc232c37 'Venona's Secret Message by rragan'
- 716f7c38-1e33-4124-a071-a7083700f721 'Question 10...'
- 6a4819de-f44b-4c96-b80a-695049d3f56a 'Question 9...'
- bb30f156-fdb1-469f-9865-f29cc94ba23e 'Question 8...'
- 5f1e6ad7-84a3-4acc-b751-45938821d4b6 'Question 7...'
- d3d8e65d-080d-4636-88b4-9ebe8d820a66 'Question 6...'
- 07209182-81aa-4acf-9fab-494641a89124 'Question 5...'
- 9bccaf62-ac50-4174-bf0c-0baad348b308 'Question 4...'
- c1913edd-c2b4-4fc0-b2a5-0a2e0a68d38d 'Question 3...'
- 3e4fa6f8-92e7-412d-93f5-f63f1666cb04 'Question 2...'
- 9877b524-c38a-4dc0-ad1f-0dd96f4626c8 'Question 1...'
- 455d0661-bf3f-4191-abbe-7a5b15e9c73b 'All Keyed Up by foomanjoo'
- 99601b96-024c-4f84-b55c-a66abe399686 'All Stirred Up by rragan'
- 601fe6b4-4cad-4dc6-a3c3-cbdf0dff77aa 'Miss-Direction by Balcanthez'
- 72c28d3a-7b02-4212-915d-c35f64455e4c 'Dragon Strongbox by BELLontheMOVE'
- a95f98a9-ae20-47e2-9095-f1040a0f1701 'GEO-MEMORY RACE by BELLontheMOVE'
- 7c433e87-1b97-4aff-a46c-36a817afbeda 'Under Pressure by maddmaxxawr'
- d10352cc-ce63-40d1-95f9-c9fc09ac87f2 'The Old Man by macgyverandflo'
- 3c02c4f6-4aa4-45b0-8391-96d65ac73f12 'Safe Cracker by macgyverandflo'
- 9d6c2ac9-8432-4d35-b2c5-602ac5927210 'Moldy Swiss Cheese by maddmaxxawr'
- 417f4aa7-9450-4d0c-bee3-2778b80badf3 'Slammagen (Pipe Dream) by maddmaxxawr'
- ed595a6b-7f9a-4a0d-b2dc-52eeddb65044 'But How Do I Log It? by maddmaxxawr'
- d4192d4f-b859-48ff-bf94-1d053acc849e 'Click Out of 1 by JaidenK'
- 98267571-5f27-4678-bdd1-6ebf32890bb4 'Puzzled by macgyverandflo'
- a0034aa1-dc66-42f5-9802-7bf9558cba15 'Merry-Go-Found by BELLontheMove'
- d063060a-8947-4566-8181-0c9bfc06e220 'Geo-Hangman by Balcanthez'
- ed4f549d-a69c-40d0-bb6a-b33245600592 'Jed by mcgyverandflo'
- 71a16495-be7b-4f9c-9c3e-f4b9870365fd 'Games!'
- 566e47fa-7d43-4550-b17e-afdf3e842c8c 'Signal!'
- 180b96ee-91c8-4b9b-83ac-7c2cc38f19a6 'briX hotel by BELLontheMOVE'
- df0e55ad-0a87-4319-ab71-fe6d35a477e7 'Cache and Release by Minymag'
- GCA83Q6 'Spring Fling '23 Was Here!'
- GCA2P0P 'Spring Fling '23'
- GC92HFB 'briX hotel (GADGET CACHE and Travel Bug Hotel)'
- GC98A86 'Geo-Hangman'
- GCA86Z6 'Fishy Fishy '
- GC9NJDX 'what3wordles'
- GCA6J2F 'Miss Direction'
- GC47CQ5 'HHunter can see Wally; can you? (gc47cq5)'

 

Oh, thank you!  I completely forgot about ALs because you don't see them on your profile!

[+steben6]

6 hours ago, Hügh said:

 

You did find 48 caches; 40 were Adventure Lab caches:

 

- f7353d15-7ff8-4b34-968c-f3d11110ebf3 'Splash Cache!'
- 13b15cbd-b171-4047-b782-7849675d65a0 'Sales!'
- f849aae6-c126-4c7e-9a16-9e97c4f520e1 'The Spring Flingway!'
- 084390b6-a376-44e0-b520-073ccf86f099 'Clown Car!'
- 2337e264-4e1f-4b5c-87dd-8a1dd1517d28 'Welcome!'
- d8ae381c-d39e-4763-bcb0-141ffc41c5bd 'Sour Grapes!'
- a0d291f6-0336-4f41-b018-8a356367d8a4 'Raffle & Auction!'
- 1c405ed9-12a8-44d8-947a-c9474e24f901 'Trackables!'
- c6665c94-22a1-4cec-81e4-0981e6052891 'Under Pressure by rragan'
- 591d5399-7610-41d1-9626-140ccc232c37 'Venona's Secret Message by rragan'
- 716f7c38-1e33-4124-a071-a7083700f721 'Question 10...'
- 6a4819de-f44b-4c96-b80a-695049d3f56a 'Question 9...'
- bb30f156-fdb1-469f-9865-f29cc94ba23e 'Question 8...'
- 5f1e6ad7-84a3-4acc-b751-45938821d4b6 'Question 7...'
- d3d8e65d-080d-4636-88b4-9ebe8d820a66 'Question 6...'
- 07209182-81aa-4acf-9fab-494641a89124 'Question 5...'
- 9bccaf62-ac50-4174-bf0c-0baad348b308 'Question 4...'
- c1913edd-c2b4-4fc0-b2a5-0a2e0a68d38d 'Question 3...'
- 3e4fa6f8-92e7-412d-93f5-f63f1666cb04 'Question 2...'
- 9877b524-c38a-4dc0-ad1f-0dd96f4626c8 'Question 1...'
- 455d0661-bf3f-4191-abbe-7a5b15e9c73b 'All Keyed Up by foomanjoo'
- 99601b96-024c-4f84-b55c-a66abe399686 'All Stirred Up by rragan'
- 601fe6b4-4cad-4dc6-a3c3-cbdf0dff77aa 'Miss-Direction by Balcanthez'
- 72c28d3a-7b02-4212-915d-c35f64455e4c 'Dragon Strongbox by BELLontheMOVE'
- a95f98a9-ae20-47e2-9095-f1040a0f1701 'GEO-MEMORY RACE by BELLontheMOVE'
- 7c433e87-1b97-4aff-a46c-36a817afbeda 'Under Pressure by maddmaxxawr'
- d10352cc-ce63-40d1-95f9-c9fc09ac87f2 'The Old Man by macgyverandflo'
- 3c02c4f6-4aa4-45b0-8391-96d65ac73f12 'Safe Cracker by macgyverandflo'
- 9d6c2ac9-8432-4d35-b2c5-602ac5927210 'Moldy Swiss Cheese by maddmaxxawr'
- 417f4aa7-9450-4d0c-bee3-2778b80badf3 'Slammagen (Pipe Dream) by maddmaxxawr'
- ed595a6b-7f9a-4a0d-b2dc-52eeddb65044 'But How Do I Log It? by maddmaxxawr'
- d4192d4f-b859-48ff-bf94-1d053acc849e 'Click Out of 1 by JaidenK'
- 98267571-5f27-4678-bdd1-6ebf32890bb4 'Puzzled by macgyverandflo'
- a0034aa1-dc66-42f5-9802-7bf9558cba15 'Merry-Go-Found by BELLontheMove'
- d063060a-8947-4566-8181-0c9bfc06e220 'Geo-Hangman by Balcanthez'
- ed4f549d-a69c-40d0-bb6a-b33245600592 'Jed by mcgyverandflo'
- 71a16495-be7b-4f9c-9c3e-f4b9870365fd 'Games!'
- 566e47fa-7d43-4550-b17e-afdf3e842c8c 'Signal!'
- 180b96ee-91c8-4b9b-83ac-7c2cc38f19a6 'briX hotel by BELLontheMOVE'
- df0e55ad-0a87-4319-ab71-fe6d35a477e7 'Cache and Release by Minymag'
- GCA83Q6 'Spring Fling '23 Was Here!'
- GCA2P0P 'Spring Fling '23'
- GC92HFB 'briX hotel (GADGET CACHE and Travel Bug Hotel)'
- GC98A86 'Geo-Hangman'
- GCA86Z6 'Fishy Fishy '
- GC9NJDX 'what3wordles'
- GCA6J2F 'Miss Direction'
- GC47CQ5 'HHunter can see Wally; can you? (gc47cq5)'

 

And how do I see the ALs I have found?

 

[+Hügh]

44 minutes ago, steben6 said:

And how do I see the ALs I have found?

 

https://labs.geocaching.com/logs

[+steben6]

On 1/4/2024 at 8:17 PM, Hügh said:

 

https://labs.geocaching.com/logs

Thank you!

 

[+CheekyBrit]

On 6/29/2023 at 11:18 AM, terratin said:

Biggest surprises

Yeah, there were a lot of surprises. This stat break down was amazing.

[+Stick_With_Me]

I did not receive this stats email (and I'm a premium member who subscribes to the newsletter). Does anyone know what is required to get this stats email?

[Moun10Bike]

43 minutes ago, Stick_With_Me said:

I did not receive this stats email (and I'm a premium member who subscribes to the newsletter). Does anyone know what is required to get this stats email?

 

You have to have been signed up for promotional emails:

Edited January 12 by Moun10Bike

[+Viajero Perdido]

Is the URL format for this page easy enough to figure out (eg, containing an obvious username or user-id-number), for those not opted-in?  If so, what is the format?

 

I don't want to opt-in to marketing stuff, thanks anyway.  I'm already a customer.

[Moun10Bike]

1 minute ago, Viajero Perdido said:

Is the URL format for this page easy enough to figure out (eg, containing an obvious username or user-id-number), for those not opted-in?  If so, what is the format?

 

I don't want to opt-in to marketing stuff, thanks anyway.  I'm already a customer.

 

It was an email, not a web page.

[+JL_HSTRE]

21 hours ago, Moun10Bike said:

You have to have been signed up for promotional emails

 

Only being able to opt into educational/informative emails if you also opt into promotional emails seems like a dishonest marketing strategy, albeit one by no means unique to Groundspeak. 

[+niraD]

2 hours ago, JL_HSTRE said:

Only being able to opt into educational/informative emails if you also opt into promotional emails seems like a dishonest marketing strategy, albeit one by no means unique to Groundspeak. 

Maybe it's just me, but distinguishing "educational/informative" emails from "promotional" emails sounds quite subjective...

[+thebruce0]

If it's one company, I'd lump them all together. How many 'topics' can an email blast to your users contain? Informational almost always is promotional. Any email from the company to its users that links back to the website is promotional in a sense.

 

I'd certainly separate the two if the company attempted to market 3rd party stuff that they think I might be interested in. That to me is more marketing  than informational. But if say they were launching a new cache type, it's promotional and informational. Or if they were launching a new geocaching app, promotional and informational.

 

I dunno. I'm fine with options for either all or nothing.

 

Or, I'd be pleased with a more granular breakdown to distinct topics to opt in/out, like for a dynamic email newsletter blast - such as whether I want to be informed about Adventure Labs, Geocaching/HQ updates, Statistics reports, Blog posts, Souvenir promos, Store deals and product, Upcoming events, etc.