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Hello folks.  I am a new member here (station 3205, US/Colorado/Summit-county).  I have been operating my station for just a few days.  There are lots of things I don't know, so I apologize if this is a dumb question.  I clicked around and found LightningMaps.org and logged in and clicked through America and Statistics and Network.  This brought me to Lightning Network Statistics for a period of one hour. The "Sum of strokes" was 5680 and the "Sum of Signals" was 445229.   I clicked on the "Efficiency" column header to sort it so that the most efficient station was listed first, working down to the least efficient station.  Here is a screen shot.
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And now the first of two things that astonished me.  My station 3205 (US/Colorado/Summit-county) was ranked highest for "Efficiency"!?  My station was listed with a signals per hour count of 21740 and with a strokes per hour count of 2508.  And this yields an efficiency score of 22.6%.  And this was the highest-ranking station in the report.

How can it possibly be that my station, just a few days old, would be the highest ranking station in the report?

Maybe this is somehow tied to the fact that when I was logged in, it somehow focused on my station?  Maybe when a different person logs in, they see a different station showing up as most efficient?

Turning to the second of two things that astonished me.  There are about 158 active stations in the United States.   I am baffled to see that nearly all of the stations in the report have an efficiency of zero.  How can it possibly be that only about 6 of the stations in the US have a nonzero efficiency?

Welcome aboard!  
Upgraded your forum status to "participant" ... you now have access to internal "participants only" boards.

For response to your query, see this post:
https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread...6#pid25976
note the 'key phrase':
"... efficiency" and "Effectivity" are totally deprecated terms at this stage of network growth and development."

other examples re: lightningmaps.org here
https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread...9#pid27179
https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread...8#pid27258
 ...etc., etc.

Mike

Thank you for the upgrade and thank you for the links. This is very helpful.

Cutty:  Is there a way to get access to our own stations that show the statistics that are valid similar to your page?
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Thanks, 
Pete - W2PJ

(2025-08-12, 14:39)W2PJ-WX Wrote: [ -> ]Cutty:  Is there a way to get access to our own stations that show the statistics that are valid similar to your page?
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Thanks, 
Pete - W2PJ

Well, yeah... if I can do it, anybody might be able... all of the stuff presented is online somewhere and accessible to you for your station, but to present it 'gathered together' that page uses some clunky implementations and a strange trick or two... view 'source' when you open the page and you can see what I mean.  Mostly it's games with Iframes. And a tiny bit of skullduggery, if you will... some of it's in simple 'encrypting' to make it a bit harder for 'casual' surfers to easily see what's what... there was a reason I did that, but don't remember exactly why, right now,.... aaaarrrrghh... Send me an email, and we can get off the board and I'll try to remember how I'm doing some of the stuff...  the 'station listing' derivation, sorting etc is quite tricky... and if Egon changes it, my display will go nuts. It would be simpler for just one station, I'm doing four... 
Mike