By How Much is JetPunk's Popularity Increasing?

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Popularity Surge

I started writing this blog on the 8th of May, 2026. At the time I am writing this, there are almost 1.5 billion quiz takes on JetPunk. I remember there being a celebration back in August 2024 because JetPunk had just reached one billion takes. It hasn't even been two years, and the number of takes has already increased by 50%, whereas it took just under 16 years to reach one billion!

There are, of course, explanations for this. According to this blog, the first JetPunk quiz, "Countries of the World Quiz," was released in September 2008 (I was only a few weeks old at the time!). Since then, more and more quizzes are being released every day, which means more and more people are taking them. I began to wonder: by just how much is JetPunk's popularity increasing? This blog will provide statistics that will answer that question.

New User Quizzes Per Day

The chart below records the number of new user-created quizzes released every day on JetPunk from May 8th to 12th, 2026.

This did not have the results I expected, but still an increase can be seen. On the first day, May 8, I did notice a lot of quizzes starting with "UPDATED," so something might have happened that day which would explain why it was so high compared to the others. Excluding that, an overall increase can definitely be seen in this graph, and can be used to say that overall, there are more and more quizzes released with time on JetPunk.

Total Takes Over Time

The chart below shows the total number of quiz takes on JetPunk from May 8 to May 12, 2026. The number was measured on each of these days at 8:00 PM EDT, which is 12:00 AM GMT the next day for comparison.

You can see the slope increase! That means more and more takes happen each day. The number of takes per day is constantly rising, according to this graph.

Countries of the World Quiz

Take a look at the screenshot below, taken from JetPunk's "Countries of the World Quiz".
General Stats from "Countries of the World Quiz"

The last stat reset was July 14, 2011. That means that before then, the quiz was only taken 2888 times. The quiz had existed for almost 3 years at that time, and in just under 15 years, it has gotten 47285531 takes. That's 99.994% of its takes being from that reset, which is only about five sixths of its life! Five sixths of 47288419 is about 39407016, so the quiz has about 8 million more takes than would have been expected if the number of takes per day remained constant.

Conclusion

I was too lazy to do any real statistical analysis but just by looking at these stats, I think it's clear that JetPunk's popularity is increasing rapidly! If this keeps up, JetPunk may be very popular in the next decade or two, so the earlier you make content on JetPunk, the more plays you're likely to get in the future!
12 Comments
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Level 39
May 13, 2026
On May 8th QM did an update removing groups and replacing friends with "Share Scores" its a possibility why those quizzes started with updated.

Great Blog like always

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Level 83
May 13, 2026
Countries of the World must have had more takes than that before 2020. It clears thousands of takes per day, every day. It’s the primary reason the site has any takes at all, so there’s literally no way it only had 3000 takes before 2020.

The stats probably haven’t reset since 2011 when South Sudan became a country. The last update was probably for North Macedonia’s name change, which didn’t need a stat reset since the number of countries didn’t change.

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Level 59
May 13, 2026
Right, sorry. I also thought those numbers were strange. It has been fixed.
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Level 71
May 15, 2026
The updates might be because one user had a lot of time and updated all their quizzes on one day?
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Level 62
May 13, 2026
The first graph probably doesn't show an increase because you did it over the weekend, when there's less traffic.
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Level 59
May 13, 2026
You may be right. This blog just assumes that there are no other factors influencing the results. It's not an exact measure of JetPunk's popularity increase, merely an observation.
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Level 68
May 13, 2026
The idea behind that graph is the right one, but in order to show any meaningful trend in the amount of quizzes published, it does need to be over a longer period that just 5 days.

Still, you're correct, JetPunk's takes are certainly increasing! This was nice to see

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Level 56
May 13, 2026
I think what you showed could just be statistical noise. A few days isn't enough to prove the rising popularity of the site, it's much more like normal variation rather than something statistically significant to prove an increase in site traffic. Also, as mentioned by other users above, it may have been a result of recent site changes.

That being said, there is a long-term trend of growing popularity for JetPunk. But it happens on much longer timescales and there are also seasonal variations in traffic (more traffic in winter than in summer, for example).

I like the idea of the blog, but it seems to draw conclusions from ambiguous signals rather than clear evidence.

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Level 78
May 13, 2026
I like the idea and start of an analysis! But from what I know about takes, the weekend usually sees much less popularity, with Monday being stronger, and Tuesday often being the day of the week with the most takes. So your analysis appears to help support that.
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Level 83
May 13, 2026
I think it’s pretty clear what these numbers mean. It’s time to start investing in JetPunk. Buy all the jonks. Diamond hands 2 da moon!
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Level 62
May 13, 2026
Wish I could invest in JetPunk stocks
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Level 71
May 15, 2026
You're investing into the stocks... but you're also helping boost them in the first place???