Community Health Index

Intriguing list of health factors for communities, created by Lithium:

  • Responsiveness - A measure of time to respond between successive message posts within a thread taking into account expected response time
  • Interaction - The number of unique participants weighted by the amount of conversation between them within a thread
  • Liveliness - A function of the number of posts per board over time taking into account user expectations for engagement
  • Members - The number of registered members over time
  • Content - A function of posts weighted by member and guest viewership
  • Traffic - The number of page views over time taking into account search crawlers”

[ via Lithium ]