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Hi there, last year in july I have hidden my first geocache. Only 10 months later Its allready passes 500 finds! Ive never expected it would be that popular. Is there an kind of average or is this just a good spot due to much tourism? And is there any knowledge about the most popular cache due to an average find per day??

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Hi there, last year in july I have hidden my first geocache. Only 10 months later Its allready passes 500 finds! Ive never expected it would be that popular. Is there an kind of average or is this just a good spot due to much tourism? And is there any knowledge about the most popular cache due to an average find per day??

 

That is a high number of finds. Tourism helps because new people are always passing by. Some urban caches also get a lot of visitors. Good placement!

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Project-GC's "lonely caches" can give some statistics on this. I checked for London, and there are 82 caches which average less than 0.5 days per find (i.e., more that 730 finds a year, which is about the level you're on), although some of those are very recent placements. The most often found cache is GC3B88D "Three London Icons", currently on 5983 finds since January 2012 - it's an easy find inside a phone box very near the Houses of Parliament, so obviously getting the tourists in.

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What on4bam says is true. Our most logged cache has 300 logs now, but it's been out there since 2011, which gets the averages down. On the other hand it's placed in a small village in the middle of nowhere, thus that might still be a lot then. On the other hand it has no favourites even though a lot of research went into it.

 

Our most popular by average finds and favourite points is a lengthy letterbox right in the middle of a popular tourist stomping ground. It's got 226 logs now and over 50% favourites, published in late 2013.

 

Number three: the oldest (2009), second highest in favourite points and third most visited is an EarthCache, again in the middle of nowhere. But there used to be a powertrail passing by, at which point most logs appeared (and a few disappeared as some power cachers didn't have time to answer the questions). Since the PT is gone it gets a handfull of logs a year again :)

 

So: location, something interesting or novelty cache and lots of other things can play a role.

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I have a webcam cache (the last one in my state, and the closest one for a couple hundred miles) That gets more visitors than any of my other caches, but it's only had 233 logs since 2005. Of course, the "big" city it's in around here is only about 24,000 people.

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What on4bam says is true. Our most logged cache has 300 logs now, but it's been out there since 2011, which gets the averages down. On the other hand it's placed in a small village in the middle of nowhere, thus that might still be a lot then. On the other hand it has no favourites even though a lot of research went into it.

 

Our most popular by average finds and favourite points is a lengthy letterbox right in the middle of a popular tourist stomping ground. It's got 226 logs now and over 50% favourites, published in late 2013.

 

So: location, something interesting or novelty cache and lots of other things can play a role.

 

Interestingly, our most popular hide is a Letterbox Hybrid in Central Park in New York City. 615 finds in 7.5 years. Favorite points are 65 (or 15%.)

It just overtook our Webcam Cache on Mount Washington, New Hampshire. 585 finds in 10 years. (It's only available about half the year.) But the webcam has 170 favorites at 40%.

So, yes, unusual cache type helps. Being in a major tourist area helps too. (Being the only Letterbox Hybrid in New York City also helps.)

Our "Go and hike the mountains of North Jersey" caches don't get nearly as many finds or favorite points. Our next highest on favorite points was a archived urban cache in West New York, New Jersey, with 144 finds, 12 favorite points at 15%.

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I placed my cache GC2ACJJ specifically for the purpose to get as many finds as possible (in stark contrast to most of my other hides ;) ). The current overall average is about 0.18 days/find (or 5.45 finds/day) over almost 5 years. Interestingly, while the percentage of fav points is of course extremely low, it's still my cache with the highest absolute number of FP. Which is actually a bit sad :( .

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Yes, I have to agree that a touristic spot makes all the difference.

 

My Aureus, in one of the best known Lisbon streets has 4 years and more than 3400 Founds, being the 6th with more Founds in Portugal.

 

Compare that with The Spot, the 4th oldest active cache in the world. It's in somewhat of a tourist area (the Finger Lakes Region of NY) but it's a fairly rural location and only has a bit over 1200 finds in 15 years.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if the average number of finds per cache was significantly higher in Europe than it is in most parts of the U.S. and that the number of geocachers per square mile (or kilometer) was significantly higher as well.

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Prague has a lot of caches with very high number of finds per day. There are currently 11 active caches in Prague with over 10,000 finds.

It is common practice there to sign with date and time. I was often finding caches which had been found 5-10 times already that same day.

 

It is a popular tourist city, and in a country with a lot of active geocachers.

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