Just to insert some quick real reality here, and not really to "you" Joe, just using your comment here as a nice and simple conduit. And with the usual disclaimer that I do not especially care for the current numbering system, as I have noted several times in several places, in several ways.
And just to reiterate I did in fact watch stats quite closely for a couple of years, and even had a g+ community where some of us collected various ways to see them...where I determined to my own satisfaction they are too easily skewed by those with various agendas, typically by the sl clone types for marketing purposes, and I found many ways this is done, because the free Meta does not actually care [which is why such stats reporting gets very little commenting from that direction].
The interesting thing here is plainly seen concerning inwz, where, imo, you make an excellent poster child for, Joe-)) I can imagine some kind of poster like they did for Uncle Sam, the finger pointing one where he says, "Uncle Sam wants you". [this is just a fun paragraph, Joe, smile...you're on Candid Camera!!]
However, from the 14th to the 15th, the "1" metric they often point to in their forums, themselves [anyone can go read such things and there is a current thread going on there now about it all], is the total paid regions, for which you can note they lost 21 from the day of reporting to here [I am sure that was just a coincidence though] to the next day.
Does it matter? no, because such things are easily done, which is the point of this comment. People are paying all sorts of attention to very small numbers, when we could all be discussing much more relevant matters, much more fun matters, and much more interesting things going on in the Meta that would more likely attract new users who [I imagine] can mostly not "get it" why we think 10 new users here and 30 new regions there, are important at all. They have no clue why varregion, megaregions, and standard regions distinctions even matter.
All it does is give people, typically sl clone types, some more fodder to say they are all this, or they are all that, and add to the drama, of which outsiders who are on the net, get way too much of, already...
So, here are some nice photos for the visually enhanced readers.