[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 27 May 2011:

There are 1013 TBs and GCs in 665 of the 5485 active South African caches. It is good to see we are back over 1000 again!

There are 5 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 17 trackables
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 17 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 14 trackables
GC2PMYQ - Tswaing Crater Sleepover III, 2011: 14 trackables
GC24TZG - Home Base: 13 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 3 June 2011:

There are 1005 TBs and GCs in 655 of the 5515 active South African caches.

There are 5 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC2WW6Q - An Aussie in Cape Town: 19 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 16 trackables
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 14 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 14 trackables
GC24TZG - Home Base: 13 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 17 June 2011:

There are 1013 TBs and GCs in 655 of the 5563 active South African caches.

There are 3 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 23 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 16 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 22 July 2011:

There are 951 TBs and GCs in 627 of the 5777 active South African caches.

There are 3 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 23 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 14 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 5 August 2011:

There are 954 TBs and GCs in 635 of the 6383 active South African caches.

There are 3 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 29 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 18 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 15 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 12 August 2011:

There are 980 TBs and GCs in 662 of the 6405 active South African caches.

The trend over the last 2 years has been one additional trackable in circulation every 5.8 days, and one more cache with trackables every 21 days.
The percentage of South African caches carrying trackables decreased from 18.6% two years ago to 10.3% today. I think there are two reasons for this - firstly the number of new caches grew much faster than the number of trackables in circulation, and secondly, almost half of all the new caches since then have been micros, which usually can not accommodate trackables.

There are 4 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 29 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 17 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 16 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 12 trackables

[cincol]

OK everyone - I know how Danie loves his statistics AND loves a challenge. I have a thought that might produce some interesting figures. Many of us have trackables in circulation and all of us who have some in circulation have had some disappear. What would be interesting is to see what the "loss ratio" or "survival ratio" is for trackables. Is there a way of doing that or would each cacher have to submit there trackable figures - survivors vs MIA's - manually for Danie to calculate.

Looking forward to some ideas / suggestions / comments.

[Danie Viljoen]

There are a number of problems to calculate this: The moment a trackable leaves Africa, I lose track of it. I'll need to know where all trackables are for the whole world, which is impractical, with the limitation of 5 PQs per day. The second problem is when is a trackable really lost? Some cachers keep them for months, and others are logged in the wrong caches. Yet another problem is that trackables are removed (stolen, or not logged) but are still shown as being in a cache. (The owner of the trackable, as well as the cache owner, can easily correct this, but it is often not done.)

[cincol]

I thought there would be problems getting the data. The only way would be to do it manually based on the feedback of cachers who provide info.

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 19 August 2011:

There are 944 TBs and GCs in 652 of the 6421 active South African caches - a huge drop this week.

There are only 2 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 13 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 26 August 2011:

The downward trend continues - there are now 941 TBs and GCs in 652 of the 6417 active South African caches.

There are 3 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 12 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 11 trackables

I have been monitoring the trackables for slightly more than 2 years now. During this time the record was 33 trackables in one cache - 2010 Techno Event 2, on 21 May 2010.

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 2 September 2011:

There are 965 TBs and GCs in 643 of the 6433 active South African caches - one in ten caches contains a trackable.

There are 4 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 15 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 12 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 12 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 16 September 2011:

There are 990 TBs and GCs in 645 of the 6493 active South African caches.

There are 4 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC1RN78 - Ki-Deo - TB's Place To Call Home!: 31 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 30 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 14 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 12 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 18 November 2011:

There are 1061 TBs and GCs in 668 of the 6681 active South African caches.

There are 5 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC2CG7X - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel: 36 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 23 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 13 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 12 trackables
GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 13 January 2012:
There are 973 TBs and GCs in 658 of the 6809 active South African caches.

There are 6 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 22 trackables
GC143XC - The Palm Tree TB Rest Stop: 14 trackables
GC18JR9 - Bloem N1 TB Motel: 14 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 13 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 12 trackables
GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 3 February 2012:
There are 1018 TBs and GCs in 661 of the 6886 active South African caches.

There are 6 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 17 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 16 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 12 trackables
GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables
GC3AVQT - Lowveld Leap Year Event: 11 trackables

[Carbon Hunter]

Danie

Any chance of reporting:

1) Similar stats for all of Africa? I assume SA have the vast amjority of trackables - event though we have about 86% of the caches - I would imagine well over 95% of the Travellers?
2) Any idea on the total number of travellers ever in sa? - or perhaps total number of tb visits (multiple visits and dips included)

[Danie Viljoen]

Carbon Hunter, on 07 February 2012 - 04:31 AM, said:

Any chance of reporting:

1) Similar stats for all of Africa? I assume SA have the vast amjority of trackables - event though we have about 86% of the caches - I would imagine well over 95% of the Travellers?

It should be easy to do the same for the whole of Africa - I did not realise there was any interest. I'll add it during the next round (probably tomorrow).

Carbon Hunter said:

2) Any idea on the total number of travellers ever in sa? - or perhaps total number of tb visits (multiple visits and dips included)

Do you mean the total number of GCs and TBs over all time? I kept weekly snapshots of everything in Africa from about August 2009. I guess one could extract a master list of all the trackables in Africa since that time, but it will be a lengthy manual process. I'll think about it...

[Carbon Hunter]

If it is too lengthy - do not worry - if it is a tickle of the keyboard with your macro - then by all means.
Just for interest to see how many TB visist there have been in SA over time.And if TBs still move as often or not.

[Carbon Hunter]

If it is too lengthy - do not worry - if it is a tickle of the keyboard with your macro - then by all means.
Just for interest to see how many TB visist there have been in SA over time.And if TBs still move as often or not.

[mr panda]

Speaking of TB stats, I've been tracking those that have visited my hotel - GC2CG7X - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel http://coord.info/GC2CG7X
To do this, I've had to manually keep a spreadsheet of visitors, when they logged in and out. I've noticed a few double visits, but as these don't get double listed in the 'all past trackables' list, i'm not sure how to find these. Anyway, I thought readers of this thread might enjoy these graphs. Also, any suggestions as to how to do this easier, or other things you like to see for the stats of a given hotel. Feedback very welcome.

as of 31 Jan 2012: 323 Visits for 317 unique trackables. (not including geokrets, I haven't been tracking these)
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http://i763.photobuc...0120131_bar.gif

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 10 February 2012:
There are 1567 TBs and GCs in 968 of the 8067 active African caches
There are 1001 TBs and GCs in 656 of the 6919 active South African caches.

Rest of Africa: 566
Western Cape: 339
Gauteng: 232
Kwazulu Natal: 132
Eastern Cape: 71
Free State: 69
Mpumalanga: 65
Limpopo: 39
North West: 35
Northern Cape: 19

There are 5 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 17 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 13 trackables
GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 11 trackables
GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

This post has been edited by Danie Viljoen: 10 February 2012 - 01:45 PM

[Carbon Hunter]

Thanks Danie - Wow - I would never have imagined over 550 TBs in the rest of Africa!

[Danie Viljoen]

Carbon Hunter, on 11 February 2012 - 02:13 AM, said:

I would never have imagined over 550 TBs in the rest of Africa!

Yes, it is surprising - 49% of the caches in the rest of Africa contain trackables, vs. 9% for South Africa.

[Carbon Hunter]

Very odd - I have found very few caches in Africa with TBs in them. A few select ones - many dips I notice - but not many visitors. Well that was my perception anyhow.

[cincol]

Is it possible that many of the African caches that have TBs indicated as being there in fact don't have any in them? My experience in "remote" areas has shown this to be the case quite often. I was in Bali 2 weeks ago and 2 caches had in excess of 10 trachables listed in each of them. The one cache had 2 and then other - with 14 listed - had none! i had similar experiences in remote caches in the Spanish and French Pyrenees as well.

The majority of the African caches containing trakabkes will more than likely be in Morrocco which has huge traffic from Europe and perhaps has similar stats to Bali? Don't know. Just posing the question.

[Danie Viljoen]

The breakdown for Africa is as follows:

Africa: 1567 trackables in 968 caches out of 8067 (12.0%)
South Africa: 1001 trackables in 656 caches out of 6919 (9.5%)
Rest of Africa: 566 trackables in 312 caches out of 1148 (27.2%, sorry - I made a mistake yesterday)
Egypt: 137 trackables in 61 caches out of 182 (33.5%)
Namibia: 86 trackables in 52 caches out of 172 (30.2%)
Morocco: 42 trackables in 21 caches out of 74 (28.4%)
Reunion: 28 trackables in 20 caches out of 50 (40.0%)
Kenya: 26 trackables in 13 caches out of 49 (26.5%)
Mauritius: 23 trackables in 12 caches out of 43 (27.9%)
There are more African countries with trackables, but far fewer than the above.

I also suspect that quite a number of these trackables are missing, but never removed from the cache inventories. This is a problem even in South Africa.

[cincol]

Wow - Reunion has a high percentage. It is also a very remote location but has more caches than Kenya!

[Carbon Hunter]

cincol, on 12 February 2012 - 05:03 AM, said:

Wow - Reunion has a high percentage. It is also a very remote location but has more caches than Kenya!

Very odd - they both have 50 caches active currently in total - I guess Reunioon (which is technically part of France) - has a lot of EU (French) cachers visiting for official business and tourism reasons?

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 17 February 2012:
There are 1552 TBs and GCs in 956 of the 8091 active African caches
There are 987 TBs and GCs in 651 of the 6937 active South African caches.

There are 6 caches with more than 10 trackables:
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 15 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 14 trackables
GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 11 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 11 trackables
GC24TZG - Home Base: 11 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 2 March 2012:
There are 1618 TBs and GCs in 991 of the 8143 active African caches
There are 1033 TBs and GCs in 678 of the 6982 active South African caches.

There are 7 caches with more than 11 trackables:
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 25 trackables
GC2FX23 - College of knowledge (Egypt): 17 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 14 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 13 trackables
GCYW1Z - Pop Inn: 13 trackables
GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 12 trackables
GC3BRDC - Cape Town Leaps: 12 trackables

[Carbon Hunter]

Wow - must be the first time I've seen Little Netherlands off the list

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 16 March 2012:
There are 1614 TBs and GCs in 998 of the 8192 active African caches
There are 1027 TBs and GCs in 680 of the 7023 active South African caches.

There are 7 caches with more than 11 trackables:
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 21 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 15 trackables (It's back on the list!)
GCYW1Z - Pop Inn: 13 trackables
GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 12 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 12 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 12 trackables
GC3BRDC - Cape Town Leaps: 12 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 23 March 2012:
There are 1728 TBs and GCs in 1048 of the 8217 active African caches
There are 1109 TBs and GCs in 721 of the 7029 active South African caches.

There are 8 caches with more than 11 trackables:
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 22 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 19 trackables
GC1GZ0K - Little Netherlands TB Hotel: 17 trackables
GC2WJ2D - 747 Tb Lounge: 13 trackables
GC2CG7X - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel: 12 trackables
GC37YY2 - TB/Coin Hotel CFun Diver Sharm el Sheikh (Oldtown): 12 trackables
GC3BRDC - Cape Town Leaps: 12 trackables
GCYW1Z - Pop Inn: 12 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 4 May 2012:
There are 1656 TBs and GCs in 1021 of the 8395 active African caches
There are 1045 TBs and GCs in 687 of the 7181 active South African caches.

There are only 3 caches with more than 11 trackables:
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 38 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables
GC1B7N5 - Pretoria Hitch Hiker Hotel: 13 trackables

[Carbon Hunter]

Danie Viljoen, on 15 March 2010 - 01:18 AM, said:

Carbon Hunter, on Mar 14 2010, 08:54 AM, said:

I wonder when we'll break the 1000 TB mark?

I attached an updated graph of the number of trackables in South African caches.
If the trend continues, we should hit 1000 by 27 Nov 2011.

Danie - any chance of an update of this graph?

I am bring a few back from EU with me

[Carbon Hunter]

cincol, on 11 February 2012 - 10:55 PM, said:

Is it possible that many of the African caches that have TBs indicated as being there in fact don't have any in them? My experience in "remote" areas has shown this to be the case quite often. I was in Bali 2 weeks ago and 2 caches had in excess of 10 trachables listed in each of them. The one cache had 2 and then other - with 14 listed - had none! i had similar experiences in remote caches in the Spanish and French Pyrenees as well.

The majority of the African caches containing trakabkes will more than likely be in Morrocco which has huge traffic from Europe and perhaps has similar stats to Bali? Don't know. Just posing the question.

This certainly is possible - I know one or two of the Egyptian caches have some "retired" TBs from elsewhere placed in them - perhaps the reviewers need to look at this (?) not soure of whther thjis is allowed - e.g. a virtual in Cairo.

But some like Karen's House in Nairobi often do contain a good few and keep a good healthy turnover of TBs from tourists.

[Danie Viljoen]

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 18 May 2012:
There are 1677 TBs and GCs in 1021 of the 8395 active African caches
There are 1035 TBs and GCs in 687 of the 7181 active South African caches.

The African caches with the most trackables:
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 40 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 24 trackables
GC3HXHA - Bri-Shel TB Lodge: 13 trackables
GCYW1Z - Pop Inn: 13 trackables

[cincol]

Thought this might be of interest. A TB of mine has been placed 1 month short of 4 YEARS after having been retrieved by the cacher - same cacher! No note or mention - just quietly dropped off and the next cacher to the cache has discovered it.

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 9 Oct 2012:
There are 2448 TBs and GCs in 1392 of the 10419 active African caches
There are 1105 TBs and GCs in 672 of the 7651 active South African caches.

The African caches with the most trackables:
GC3WXRQ - MEGA SA 2012 -Voortrekker "Uitspan" Travellers Inn: 66 trackables
GC3B0EJ - MEGA South Africa 2012: 57 trackables
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 27 trackables
GC1QECR - Vaal TB Hotel: 17 trackables
GC3QE0E - Beautiful Garden TB Hotel: 16 trackables
GC3WK8G - QCXXXII - October 2012: 16 trackables

[Danie Viljoen]

TB & GC statistics for 16 Nov 2012:
There are 2528 TBs and GCs in 1488 of the 10570 active African caches
There are 1156 TBs and GCs in 725 of the 7730 active South African caches.

The African caches with the most trackables:
GC31WXR - Table Mountain Travel Bug Hotel: 35 trackables
GC3HXHA - Bri-Shel TB Lodge: 22 trackables
GC3X813 - Louise & Gerhard at 3000: 16 trackables
GC251A0 - Rosenheim 43 TB Hotel: 15 trackables
GC2CG7X - Hiddingh Security TB Hotel: 15 trackables