This has been a perennial topic. I have written paragraphs outlining the statistics I would like to see. I think that it was late summer when bbover3 said that the current stats would be reviewed after the big end-of-year crush was over. Considering how much remains to be done, I can't argue against putting this in a low priority category. But I do ask people to ignore the number of registered installations (our most inaccurate statistic) and simply mention our number of registered members (still larger than our active membership, but not by so embarassing an amount). The figure I track is daily runtime. Convert into hours and divide by 24 to get something approaching Equivalent Fulltime Computers. Or very rough and ready, 10,000 computers >= 27 years run time per day, so divide years by 27 in the daily statistics.

I agree with mycroth :) There is no point on counting points or worrying about the overall stats we see. What really matters is the work being done by the research teams. As 1 individual helping them that makes my day.