We’ve already got two articles up in the news looking back on Skyrim and celebrating its one year anniversary, but I just wanted to make a quick article celebrating one year of Skyrim mods on Skyrim Nexus, and to dissect the publically available site stats information to publicise some sensationalist figures. Because I kind of like doing it myself from time to time, and I thought I’d share my findings.

By applying some simple maths to the stats we can work out some pretty interesting stuff. Using 365 days in a year, and 86,400 seconds in a day, lets get cracking.

New file entries
Total: 23,066
Per day: 63

Downloadable (uploaded) files
Total: 76,208
Per day: 209

Downloads
Total: 154,972,860
Per day: 424,583
Per second: 5

Members with files (e.g. mod authors)
Total: 9,114
Per day: 25

File views (page views on file pages)
Total: 679,734,913
Per day: 1,862,287
Per second: 22

File endorsements
Total: 1,469,037
Per day: 4,025
Per minute: 3

Image Share images
Total: 116,357
Per day: 319

Image Share image views
Total: 38,117,613
Per day: 104,432
Per second: 1

Since Skyrim’s release we’ve had over 2.17 million new members join the Nexus network. While Skyrim can’t take credit for all those registrations, it can take credit for a large proportion of them. Similarly, many people forget that the Creation Kit didn’t actually come out until 3 months after the release of Skyrim, in February 2012, so we’ve only had 9 months of CK goodness so far. So no folks, Skyrim modding certainly isn’t dying. Frankly I think the best is yet to come.