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 18142 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: 18142

Total caches in the database: 1200603

Total logs: 13494712

INATNers have found caches in 208 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	1489	Virtual Cache
What in the World Cache?	1109	Virtual Cache
MM MM Good	762	Virtual Cache
The view of an "Honest Man"	749	Virtual Cache
Water Towers, Plain Jane or Picturesque	739	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
ORIGINAL STASH TRIBUTE PLAQUE Â©	721	Traditional Cache
US FLAG	716	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
LAKE-VEGAS	710	Virtual Cache
Eiffel Tower	688	Virtual Cache
IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST	651	Virtual Cache

Physical Caches

Cache	Number of Finders	Type
ORIGINAL STASH TRIBUTE PLAQUE Â©	721	Traditional Cache
Un-Original Stash	622	Traditional Cache
Mission 9: Tunnel of Light	454	Project APE Cache
Groundspeak Headquarters	397	Unknown Cache
Louisville & Nashville 3492	387	Traditional Cache
My Little Pumpkin Cache	342	Traditional Cache
Pumpkin Head	339	Traditional Cache
Iron Horse	339	Traditional Cache
Guido's Cactus Patch Cache	311	Traditional Cache
The Treasure of GeoWoodstock Mountain	306	Unknown 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	138799	82219	21851	7012	5743	1974	1358	416	1087	260459
	1.5	64313	222012	63065	21518	11463	4310	2276	657	1338	390952
	2	40431	81844	92432	37004	30185	10742	5970	1272	2471	302351
	2.5	14238	30813	20127	19198	10506	5361	2522	722	1114	104601
	3	11383	20798	15585	8773	14234	5459	3841	926	1194	82193
	3.5	3509	7520	5026	3222	2678	2968	1613	600	526	27662
	4	2792	5288	3877	2012	2126	1224	2338	624	570	20851
	4.5	674	1277	907	522	484	332	304	639	257	5396
	5	767	1185	892	512	511	267	303	196	1505	6138
	Total	276906	452956	223762	99773	77930	32637	20525	6052	10062	1200603

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