TrackThePack

2010 In Review: Interesting facts and figures

Now that 2010 has come to a close, we thought we’d take a look at some of the interesting stats from the past year. All of these stats are based only on data from 2010.

Packages tracked: 413,222

Our best year since we launched back in 2007. We’re doing about quadruple the number of package tracks per day as we were in 2009.

Christmas is, as you’d guess, the busiest month of the year for tracking packages and this December we tracked over 50,000 packages (over double from what we did in 2009).

Packages tracked via our iOS app: 45,784

We launched our iOS app back in April 2010 and overall the feedback has been fantastic and usage has been great with over 45,000 numbers tracked via the app.

Push notifications sent for the iPhone app: 18,961

Right after we launched our iPhone app, the most requested feature was push notifications. With over 18,000 push notifications sent in about 6 months, I feel proud of that number.

Packages tracked via non-web app sources: 60,297

Sources include the iPhone app, our Firefox plugin, Bookmarklet and email.

Most numbers tracked by a single user: 3,502

This one is pretty staggering. One user tracked over 3,500 packages in 2010. We had a couple of other users who tracked over 1,000. There were 9 users who tracked over 500 packages, 21 users who tracked over 250 packages and 131 users who tracked over 100 packages.

Package events: 2,988,725

When your package gets any sort of update (change in location, change in processing status) we call that an “event.” We tracked nearly 3 million such events in 2010.

Who were the most popular carriers?

Annnd that’s all for now. I may post some other interesting stats later, but I figure this is a good start.

Thanks everyone who uses TrackThePack. What started off as a fun little side project to scratch an itch has become a really solid service that 10’s of thousands of people use. I’m really excited to see what 2011 holds.

Thanks!

Josh Pigford