2004 Email Response Patterns
Back in 2003 I started tracking some numbers on my email use patterns, especially related to replies. I ran those old scripts on my 2004 mail and the numbers look pretty similar:
- Of the 3236 emails I sent during 2004, 2094 of them were replies
- My five most common response times in minutes were:
- ten minutes: 40 times
- thireen minutes: 36 times
- sixteen minutes: 36 times
- twelve minutes: 35 times
- eleven minutes: 33 times
- My mean response times was 22.36 minutes
- My longest response time was 58.4 days.
The only really meaningful number there is the median response time and comparing it to 2003, I'm a lot faster in general.
My email volume by year is:
| Year | Emails Sent |
|---|---|
| 2000 | 1920 |
| 2001 | 1799 |
| 2002 | 1920 |
| 2003 | 3136 |
| 2004 | 3236 |
Looking at that table it's pretty easy to tell when I started working from home again.
Here's the histogram for 2004:
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