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 11403 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: 11403

Total caches in the database: 760184

Total logs: 5417339

INATNers have found caches in 183 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	796	Virtual Cache
What in the World Cache?	765	Virtual Cache
Water Towers, Plain Jane or Picturesque	532	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
US FLAG	526	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
The Barber Pole	457	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Log a Lion	433	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Murals Across America	403	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Radio K.A.O.S.	401	Locationless (Reverse) Cache
Ã„nglamarken	389	Traditional Cache
Where's My Name ???	367	Locationless (Reverse) Cache

Physical Caches

Cache	Number of Finders	Type
ORIGINAL STASH TRIBUTE PLAQUE	322	Traditional Cache
Un-Original Stash	287	Traditional Cache
My Little Pumpkin Cache	210	Traditional Cache
Pumpkin Head	207	Traditional Cache
Mission 9: Tunnel of Light	206	Project APE Cache
Guido's Cactus Patch Cache	187	Traditional Cache
Mission 7: Crab Creek (Project APE)	185	Project APE Cache
Official GeoWoodstock VI Cache	179	Traditional Cache
Eye Level and Shiney	174	Traditional Cache
Iron Horse	166	Traditional 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	98794	49831	14407	4684	4052	1315	908	269	615	174875
	1.5	44283	126822	36781	12886	6774	2615	1350	350	688	232549
	2	29033	48461	58474	23847	20284	7072	3914	796	1366	193247
	2.5	9991	18582	12550	12523	6814	3484	1571	390	556	66461
	3	8302	12752	10130	5863	10100	3796	2617	579	697	54836
	3.5	2527	4454	3045	2064	1815	2008	1081	355	269	17618
	4	2023	3195	2500	1308	1441	821	1592	387	343	13610
	4.5	462	721	574	296	317	189	191	392	127	3269
	5	516	677	508	277	318	151	182	97	993	3719
	Total	195931	265495	138969	63748	51915	21451	13406	3615	5654	760184

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