Currently loaded stats:

Meta Stats

Here's some interesting stats about the caches that the It's Not About the Numbers database knows about. Some of these stats are fairly taxing to generate, so they only update every six hours.

Remember that this data only reflects caches that are included in the queries that are uploaded to this site. If none of the 9778 cachers who have entered their stats here have found a particular cache, it won't be included here.

Database Stats

Total cachers who have uploaded stats: 9778

Total caches in the database: 686680

Total logs: 7610972

INATNers have found caches in 176 countries!

Most Found Caches in the Database

Note that this data might be a little skewed to Midwest caches because WGA, GONIL, and MIGO cachers got wind of it before it was announced to the world. Help de-skew the numbers by getting more people in your area to upload their stats!

All Caches

Cache	Number of Finders	Type
Four Windows	1267	Virtual Cache
What in the World Cache?	1132	Virtual Cache
Water Towers, Plain Jane or Picturesque	915	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
US FLAG	844	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Log a Lion	764	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
The Barber Pole	739	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Radio K.A.O.S.	677	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Murals Across America	639	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Ã„nglamarken	619	Traditional Cache
Where's My Name ???	599	Locationless (Reverse) Cache

Physical Caches

Cache	Number of Finders	Type
ORIGINAL STASH TRIBUTE PLAQUE	418	Traditional Cache
Un-Original Stash	354	Traditional Cache
Mission 9: Tunnel of Light	285	Project APE Cache
Mission 7: Crab Creek (Project APE)	274	Project APE Cache
Rainy Affair	247	Traditional Cache
Iron Horse	226	Traditional Cache
Mission 12: Blind Canal	218	Project APE Cache
That's a fairly good sign...	214	Traditional Cache
One in a hole?	202	Traditional Cache
Solar Sailing	202	Multi-cache

Total Published Caches by Month

This graph shows three things. Total Published Caches, which is just that, the cumulative total number of published caches in the world. (At least those that this site knows about.) Total Available Caches, which is the number of caches that are currently active. This stat is just an estimate; the date a cache is archived is not included with Pocket Query data, although that fact that it is archived is. If a cache shows in a PQ as archived, I look at the last date that it was found and count that as the last month it was available. It's not entirely accurate, but it's a pretty good guess. Both those stats use the left-hand y-axis. The green bars are the number of new caches published in that month, and use the right-hand y-axis. The bars for the most recent few months are always going to be low until all the newest caches are found and someone uploads a PQ that includes them. As time goes by, they will slowly approach the actual value.

Total Terrain/Difficulty Combinations

	Terrain
Difficulty		1	1.5	2	2.5	3	3.5	4	4.5	5	Total
	1	91838	44839	13186	4268	3701	1200	851	245	536	160664
	1.5	40706	111883	32636	11381	6074	2311	1166	318	552	207027
	2	26975	42966	52793	21516	18497	6362	3529	692	1149	174479
	2.5	9273	16488	11336	11360	6200	3143	1393	347	445	59985
	3	7701	11384	9193	5323	9302	3457	2392	519	620	49891
	3.5	2366	3959	2722	1874	1642	1828	990	313	221	15915
	4	1891	2854	2274	1198	1318	753	1451	341	286	12366
	4.5	431	632	519	264	293	171	169	349	112	2940
	5	477	625	472	253	299	145	164	86	892	3413
	Total	181658	235630	125131	57437	47326	19370	12105	3210	4813	686680

Scatter Plots

There are some scatter plots of all the cachers in the database. If you currently have someone's stats loaded up, there will be a red circle highlighting where their point falls.

The green line is the result of the best fit analysis of all the points and would be where the statistical "average cacher" would fall on the graph for any point along the x-axis.

I'm looking at each combination of three different stats: Total finds, the total number of days since a cacher's first find, and the total number of unique days that a cacher has logged a find (i.e. the number of days they've actually gone out caching.)

Account age vs. Total finds

Being above the green line means that for other cachers with the same account age, the highlighted cacher has more finds than average.
Days vs Finds Scatter Plot

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Days caching vs. Total finds

This graphs shows who the "power caches" are. Being above the line means that when you go out caching for the day, you tend to find more caches at once than average.
Caching Days vs Finds Scatter Plot

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Account age vs. Days caching

This is an indicator of how obsessed you are with geocaching. Someone above the line goes out caching more often than someone below the line.
Days vs Caching Days Scatter Plot