Project-GC Q&A - Recent questions tagged profile-stats

discrepancy in profile stats and needed found date tool

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:37:17 +0000

I appear to have a discrepancy between the profile statistics "Attended events by event date" and the Needed found dates tool. For May 30th, the profile statistics show that I NEED a regular event on that day when I filter for regular events. The Needed found dates tool shows that i DO NOT NEED a regular event on that day. I have manually reviewed a fresh my find PQ from GCHQ using GSAK and I do not have a regular event attended on May 30th.

Bug in profile stats page link

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:55:05 +0000

On the profile stats page, https://project-gc.com/Statistics/ProfileStats, there is a link stating "Permanent link to this profile." When I click the link, it takes me to https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/Optimist+on+the+run which returns the error "This profile does not exist."

The URL should not have the + signs in it.

Log written in Greek not showing as words

Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:16:49 +0000

To fit the theme of the cache, I wrote this log in Greek (using Google Translate). However it's now appearing in my stats as my shortest log, with zero words. I presume this is related to this previous question. Are Greek characters not being recognised?

Does the recent bug with the adventure labs include the main Profile Stats page for a given Profile?

Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:31:28 +0000

For example, on the main page listing ones stats with the tabs Finds, Milestones, FTFs, etc,

it has the graph that shows the finds by year and cumulative. then below that it shows breakdown by year. 2026 only has finds for month of January. (148 caches and 11 labs, which it indicates under the months for the year)

my 2025 year section, says I have TOTAL FINDS of 930. but the spot under the months for the year 2025 says specifically, "Includes 1062 Adventure Labs"

This is the spot I'm asking about. I'm sure the lab count is accurate, because I know I did a good amount of hundreds for the month of July. but for the TOTAL FINDS says 930, and the note underneath says includes the labs. if that is the case, then the TOTAL FINDS should be close to 2000.

I know Geocaching treats them differently. And til recently here as well and i see that being a paid member adds functionality. I just think the Total Finds should be updated if the generated page puts a note that the labs are included or not regards of paid status

request : add treasures to profile stats

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 10:20:39 +0000

In Maps tab, have types per country listed

Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:10:42 +0000

It would be great to have data on both the number of types per country, and a list of the types per country on my Profile stats page. I think these would fit best on the 'Maps' tab, but not sure where in the page layout - perhaps a number and the type icons in the brown header band under the country name?

Profile Stats / Maps tab - World map and list of countries only

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:57:49 +0000

How can I disable all detailed maps on the Maps tab in Profile Stats, ie to leave visible only World map and a list of countries logged?

Have a nice day
ivans

Trying to generate dynamic image html code

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:19:42 +0000

Trying to generate dynamic image html code for my gc.com profile, but nothing happens when I click the button - should it trigger a download, or a pop-up, or what? I've tried both firefox and chrome browsers with the same result. Potentially willing to upgrade to a paid membership, but only if I can get features to work!

Profile Stats Not Showing on Geocaching.com Profile

Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:59:23 +0000

On the public profile page of geocaching.com the dynamic image html is showing as a broken link on multiple profiles I've looked at.

Also, trying to create the dynamic html image code on the PGC profile stats page does not seem to work, nothing happens when clicked on.

Souvenir Categorization 2025

Mon, 12 May 2025 14:09:03 +0000

Talking about categorization on project-gc profile page. Why is "Blue Switch Day 2025 Finder" in Uncategorized Souvenirs, while "Blue Switch Day 2024" is in Specific-day Souvenirs? The same goes for "GeoGuessr Challenge" (2024) being in Other Souvenirs, while this year's "GeoGuessr 2025" is in Uncategorized Souvenirs. Will they be categorized over time, or is this the final state?

suggestion of the extreme area system

Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:54:52 +0000

First of all, I know that some of the topics have already been covered in other topics, but I think that since I'm going to talk about several topics, I'll just mention them in one topic.

First of all, I congratulate you on this project as it creates yet another set of objectives to achieve. I know that the project is in its early stages, so new resources will appear, including those that I will mention below, but it doesn't hurt to suggest them.

I will suggest and number the topics that could improve the area extremes system:
1- As it already exists with the extremes found where clicking on the icon and the cache appears, there could be in those that we have not found, thus making the search easier (it could be the same as those we found or even a special search, as this way it could be easier to find even the areas that we do not have in any of the extremes found).

2- As it happens to some geocachers, even I am currently the owner of some cache in Extremos and for that reason the icon is like I need to find it, but as it is not possible to find the caches themselves, I think they could refer to this with an icon in another color, for example.

3- As there is already the highest altitude extreme, why the lowest altitude extreme?

4- There could be a filter that allows us to include caches that are archived or not, for example the filters that exist in the D\T graph of type\size

Best regards Nelitoz

Add type filter to Hidden Month on profile stats

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 04:00:42 +0000

I have found the addition of type/size filters on the various tables on my profile stats to be super useful, but was wondering if it was possible (and/or desirable to more than just myself) that the hidden month table have the same option? Personally, size would be interesting but not super important, type I would find incredible useful though.

edit: Additionally, it would be incredibly useful if there was a way for the cache type filter on the map hidden month tool to then only use that type when calculating what month(s) are missing

Statiskik Placed days

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:21:39 +0000

Hallo

Ich möchte in meiner statistik "366 - Placed Day oder hidden date" mit nur "Multis" vervollständigen.

Im tab "Funde" unter "funde nach versteckdatum" mit dem typ-filter: "Multi-cache" seh ich welche tage noch fehlen.

JEDOCH

wenn ich das Tool "Versteckdatum-Tool" mit den einstellungen:
Cache Standort: Europa / Profilname: MYNAME / Type: Multi-cache / Size: Large,Micro,Not chosen,Other,Regular,Small,Virtual
benutze, erhalte ich das Resultat: Dir fehlen keine versteckdaten.

Was mache ich falsch oder funktioniert das tool nicht richtig?
_____________________________________________________________________

Hello

I would like to complete “366 - Placed Day or hidden date” in my statistics with only “Multis”.

In the tab “Finds” under “Finds by hidden date” with the type filter: “Multi-cache” I can see which days are still missing.

EVERYWHERE

when I use the tool “Stash date tool” with the settings:
Cache Location: Europe / Profile Name: MYNAME / Type: Multi-cache / Size: Large,Micro,Not chosen,Other,Regular,Small,Virtual
I get the result: You are not missing any stash data.

What am I doing wrong or is the tool not working properly?

(Translated with DeepL.com (free version))

Add countries to 'Challenges' tab on profile stats

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:26:14 +0000

Could you add a section which shows the first challenge found in each country visited on the 'Challenges' tab of the profile stats, similar to the one on the 'Events' tab? I always try to find a challenge cache in countries I visit (not always possible!) and would value having this info on my profile stats.

Why is this cache categorized as "Other" by geocaching.com, but "Not Chosen" by projectgc?

Sun, 19 May 2024 00:53:55 +0000

Cache in question is GC3EM0C. I noticed that my "Not Chosen" size total is off by one between the two websites, and I traced it to this cache. Thanks in advance for any insight!

Have lab caches been changed to when they are added into the stats?

Tue, 20 Feb 2024 04:12:26 +0000

Have the way they are batched or added to the numbers changed recently?

I have noticed previously that Lab caches were always added to stats at the end of the day. Now it appears as if they aren't. Two of my milestones are now showing as lab caches when they were events previous to today.

Why is there a difference between my DT grid here and in geocaching.com?

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 02:22:11 +0000

Total finds are correct but there is one less 2/5 and one more 3/5 on the project GC stats than on the Geocaching.com stats (which are correct). Would also like to know if it can be fixed. Thank you.

Jüngster gefundener Cache ist falsch

Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:09:49 +0000

Moin,

sagt mal...
Mein jüngster gefundener Cache ist falsch. Seit Wochen wird er nicht erneuert.
Ist es ein Bug?

Zyklotrop

Users not showing up on PGC

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:02:24 +0000

Hi, I wanted to look up the statistics of the GC user "aronalundelmex" (profile link) but I cannot find them on PGC. When I type their name in the search bar, there is no suggestion popping up and also if I search for the full name it brings up an error. I also copy pasted to make sure there wasn't some cyrillic or greek letters hidden in there but no luck. Also directly going to https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/aronalundelmex did not bring up their stats.

On a similar note, I found another user that is found via the PGC search but brings up an internal server error:
https://project-gc.com/ProfileStats/anando1123
This one works now

Any idea why this is?

Cache Karma wrong: my finds include Lab caches but finds of my hides don't

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:00:56 +0000

I think the cache karma in Hide stats is wrong.

The find count I received on my caches doesn't include Lab caches, but my finds count does. This makes the number wrong. I understand that getting hidden Labs data is a problem, but then the sum of my finds shouldn't include them too.

FP h-index in hides tab

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:40:18 +0000

In my Hides tab, there's an entry that reads "FP h-index:13 (14 hides with at least 13 favorite points)". What exactly does this mean, and how is it calculated?

Request for a Cache Maintenance Badge

Sun, 11 Jun 2023 02:43:40 +0000

I enjoy doing cache maintenance and getting the troops in order. It’s almost as good as finding caches. I think it would be great to raise the profile of the green maintenance spanner to a level equivalent to that of a smiley.

Would it be possible to have your green spanners as part of your stats, and have a reward badge on BadgeGen too? I think this would be cool way to promote cache maintenance - it would be a win-win for COs and seekers.

I note that there were some comments previously about frequent maintenance suggesting a poorly designed cache - but I would argue that no cache can ever be maintenance free. There is always cache creep, full logbooks, wet contents, torn ziplock bags, rubbish and damage to containers that affect every single cache. Regular, pro-active maintenance is the sign of a committed CO, and it would be great to see this recognised.

switching tabs in stats and maps removal

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:00:43 +0000

Hi, I would like to modify the stats profile just as I had it in GSAK (current profile)

First tab is to be maps, and in the following order
- map of the world
- map of the Europe
- link to external map
- and finally first cache by country list

as for the rest, it can stay - and I also want to remove (not showing) all the country maps, including regions, etc .. I don't want to see that in my stats :-D

you say that you are inspired by "FindStatGen" from GSAK .. but the original is quite simple to be modified, unlike the one here .. can you help, pls? (and yes, I am paying member

Why is there a difference in the number of photos in my profile stats?

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 07:05:27 +0000

According to my Profile Stats, on the BadgeGen tab, under Belt Information, I've uploaded 339 photos to my found logs, but yet if I look under Badge Information (on the same tab), The Shutterbug stat shows 344.

Why is there a difference? Which is correct?

Where to add different home locations?

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:27:09 +0000

Previously, I used the GCStatistic tool which offered the possiblity to add different home locations with time periods applied to them. Thus, every kind of statics depending on your home location was calculated correctly (distances, angles, ...) and that even in case that you have beein moved to another place.

I could not find any such useful feature here. Would not be that difficult to implement?

Edit (2023-01-16): There is your personal settings page on project-gc where you can maintain also other stuff. Why not offer the possibility for custom homecoordinates with dates there? As long as you are not providing anything there, just take the ones from GC.

Do lab caches also count for the busy cacher badge?

Thu, 05 Jan 2023 19:33:27 +0000

I guess without it there is no "honest" way to achieve Diamond for an individual geocacher. I'm a paid member.

Exclude caches from Profile Stats "Hidden"

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 16:20:38 +0000

Having adopted caches that were hidden before I even started geocaching I'd like to exclude those from the "Hidden" tab in my profile stats - at least for the "Cumulative Finds" and "Caching karma" charts as the scales on those are so badly scewed due to the adopted caches they are basically useless.

Why is the "Attribute Cacher" counter off by 2?

Tue, 29 Nov 2022 18:53:39 +0000

Recently, we've tried to reach the Diamond badge in "Attribute Cacher".

It said that we are missing one attribute to get there. Last weekend, we logged a "partnership cache" which should have filled the missing gap but we are still stuck at the Emerald badge.

That's when I noticed that the attribute count in the badge (in our case 107) is not the same as the one on the "finds"-page (in our case 68 positive + 41 negative attributes = 109).

Is there something I'm missing or is the counter really off by 2?

Counter of "The Busy Cacher" is perhaps bugged

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:52:43 +0000

Hi,

Sorry for my poor English, I'm a french user.

I think there is a problem with the calculation of the busy cacher badge.

On my profile stats i can see :

Most finds in a day:

51 on 2022-05-27

I double checked the logs on this day and I counted 46 logs.

So I think there is a bug and I wrongfully earned the gold busy cacher badge instead of the silver one.

Thank you for your help.

PitiChuc

Eswatini fehlt in den Statistiken

Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:34:01 +0000

Hallo,

in den Profilstatistiken fehlt das Land Eswatini, bzw. es wird nicht korrekt berücksichtigt:

Keine Flagge, Land bleibt trotz gefundener Caches in der Karte weiß, Landeskarte fehlt komplett - siehe meine Profilstatistik als Beispiel.

VG Maxipimpf

List of labs from my statics gone

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:03:48 +0000

Hi, there was a useful list of all the Labs I discovered in the stats (https://project-gc.com/Profile/ProfileStats#LabCaches). Now I only see time charts and a calendar. Where has the list of all Labs found moved to? How would it be possible to retrieve it? Thanks for replay.

Ethiopia souvenir not categorized

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:04:00 +0000

Hi,

I just checked my statistics and my Ethiopia souvenir is shown as uncategorized.

A full list of found lab caches not visible in the Lab caches tab in profile stats (like used to be)?

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:52:05 +0000

A full list of found Lab caches is not visible in the Lab caches tab like used to be. I have checked my membership and it is ok.

Is it possible to edit milestones? Despite my best efforts, project-gc picked a lab cache anyway.

Tue, 24 May 2022 11:32:58 +0000

I specifically logged physical/virtual caches in the field along with the lab caches so that the the virtual I was working on would be #7000 and show a German flag. Afterwards, I went and did the lab caches that I walked past while completing the virtual. It worked on the geocaching.com profile but on project-gc it picked a random lab cache anyway... Not sure if this is a bug or not.

I'm just hoping someone has advice on how to fix it. It's kinda heartbreaking to not see a little German flag next to my 7000th milestone... It wouldn't be so bad if lab caches had country data.

Je ne vois pas le Badge Lab

Mon, 02 May 2022 13:22:03 +0000

Bonjour,

Je précise que je suis Premium que j'ai parcouru 458 Adventure Lab et que j'ai vérifié dans la configuration de mon profil (pas de case à cocher correspondante...?) et que j'ai parcouru tout le forum à ce sujet.

Merci par avance

Glitch in profile: it sometimes - but not always - displays incorrect find total because of mishandling of lab caches

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 23:14:41 +0000

This glitch report is similar to https://project-gc.com/qa/?qa=27904/profile-stats-with-double-counted-lab-caches but that discussion did not really get to the heart of the problem.

Most days, my profile total find counts are correctly displayed and are in sync with what Geocaching.com shows. But some days -- perhaps one or two days a week -- the total is incorrect because it shows that I have 20 more "total" caches than I in fact do. It appears that the system -- only on some days -- adds the lab caches to a find count that already includes the lab caches. I have taken screen shots that I could forward if helpful.

So, for example, today my profile page correctly shows 1705 total finds (ignoring the 1 cache logged today that has not yet appeared on the profile):

bejs has logged 1685 different geocaches, plus 20 lab caches, a total of 1705 unique finds Data from 2022-04-18

These are the same numbers that Geocaching.com shows. BUT a few days ago, my profile page incorrectly showed:

bejs has logged 1691 different geocaches, plus 20 lab caches, a total of 1711 unique finds Data from 2022-04-15

And on that day, Geocaching.com correctly reported that in fact I had 1671 finds plus the 20 lab caches, for a total of 1691 finds.

So a few days ago, Project-GC (incorrectly) reported that I had more finds than it (correctly) reports today, but I have NOT deleted any finds in the past few days.

I have observed this behavior for months, and have viewed the incorrect profile stats on a number of different devices. In other words, if I have seen the incorrect numbers on my phone, I have checked on my computer and also found the incorrect (and too high) numbers. As noted, I can send screen shots of the posting from a few days ago.

Thanks for all the work you do on Project-GC! bejs

Profile Stats "Maps": Click on country name to go directly to the map of the country

Sun, 20 Mar 2022 08:07:31 +0000

Feature Request:

The country list in profile stats --> maps under the world map could be links to the specific map. If you click for example on "United States", you will go directly to the US map and don't have to scroll down manually.

Is it possible to exclude a specific cache find from location-based profile statistics

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 03:54:29 +0000

I was the U.S.-based leg of a 3 continent multi cache (NZ around the world, a 3 continent cache, GC5PG6V), with the final being in New Zealand. But I personally have never found a cache in NZ, and don't feel right claim a NZ find. But my "furthest cache" indicates that cache at 8600+ miles, when in fact it should be 8200+ miles from home to some caches in Myanmar that I have found. And the NZ cache messes up a bunch of challenge checkers that I then have to manually undo to exclude the NZ cache.

Any suggestions? Thanks, bejs

Non-consistent map statistics in Crimea

Thu, 11 Nov 2021 10:36:05 +0000

I logged this cache in Crimea: https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC50FM6_sudak

According to the statistics in my Profile stats - Maps - World map, I have 1 find in Ukraine: https://yadi.sk/i/5Ht0gg0S5dNMtQ

But in the bottom of the page it shows me Ukraine with 0 regions and 0 counties logged. And according to that map Crimea is not included in Ukraine: https://yadi.sk/i/ye59fmGnKPRBNQ

Crimea exists as a county in Russia, but it also shows 0 finds there: https://yadi.sk/i/7ULbt-HMACVv3Q

Moreover, if you click on Crimea, you can see only 6 caches there, even though there are more in the region: https://yadi.sk/i/bXoJGqFBRPgtuw (and 0 caches in Sevastopol)

I don't want any political discussion here please :) I just want caches in Crimea to be shown in one country, region and county, so the statistics can be consistent.

Log length histogram

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 09:33:47 +0000

Currently I'm interested in the number of words in my logs. In the Profile Stats you get the values for longest, shortest and average log length.

A nice tool is the challenge checker "Log length by cache (Not a checker) (by Target.)"
(https://project-gc.com/Challenges//19085)

With the data from this checker saved as CSV (by copy and paste from the results page) I generated a histogram of my log length (frequency vs. number of words).

You can see my python code and the resulting histogram here:
Link to anonpaste.org (anonymous pastebin) (link expires after one year)

Wouldn't this be a nice idea to be included in the Profile Stats? What do you think?

Streak continues on profile, but ended on stats page?

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 13:20:22 +0000

I'm on a consecutive 879 day caching streak, and this is reflected in my personal profile (kill me now). I've been tracking my progress among other top streakers in Ontario, but at some point about a month ago, my stats on the "leaderboard" stopped updating. Now, my bar has turned red.

https://project-gc.com/Statistics/TopStreak?profile_name=bmuzzin&profile_country=Canada&profile_region=Ontario&submit=Filter

I've tried doing "self-service", to recount finds, but after several days, those options are still disabled, and the problem hasn't resolved. Anybody know why this is happening, and if there's something I can do to resolve it?

Thanks!
bmuzzin

Why do Adventure Labs show up in the "most icons in a day" field

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 02:59:54 +0000

Hello,

I noticed recently after doing Eleven (11) icons in one day that included an adventure lab that it has not been reflected in my "most icons in a day" stat.

The adventure labs were found mid to late afternoon Pacific Time and I know there has been some issue with GMT taking precedent in the timing on these.

Is this something that you are/will be looking into?
Thank you in advance for the help.

trekkerdmc

An option to not heatmap on the maps tab?

Thu, 27 May 2021 12:23:22 +0000

I seem to be in the minority on this opinion but I can't stand the heat map on every map in the maps tab. The color isn't great but I can deal with that, mostly I just want to see a consistent color for the areas I've been to. I already know that I've found less caches in places I've only traveled through, I don't need a shading system to tell me that. Checking the maps after a trip used to be my favorite part of Project-GC but now I barely like it.

I looked around to see if I could turn it off but I don't think there's a way. It could be as simple as a checkbox in the settings, although I'm not a programmer so I don't know for sure how hard it would be to actually write out such a thing. I don't have a paid membership here as of now but I'd 100% pay up if it meant my maps were solid color again.

Meilenstein nicht korrekt angezeigt

Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:07:25 +0000

Mein letzter Meilenstein wird auf project-gc nicht korrekt angezeigt. Auf geocaching.com jedoch richtig. Dort ist er auch fixiert.

static html download - lab caches are missing in some statistics

Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:30:19 +0000

As of today 2021-04-16 the static export is missing the lab caches in some statistics, e.g. "Tab Finds / Most cache types in a day:" or "Tab Milestones / First cache by cache type".

The tab LabCaches seems to be okay though.

Do lab caches count to "most distinct caches in one day"?

Fri, 29 Jan 2021 10:09:15 +0000

Hey guys,

I am planning to find the 11 different caches in one day and I am wondering if Lab Caches counts.

I already completed a few Lab Caches but they are not listed in my milestones-list like any other cache type I found for the first time.

Thank you for your efforts!

Include Lab Caches Box Become Unchecked for Anyone Else?

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:41:31 +0000

Not quite sure if there was some sort of server reset, something changed, or my membership had a sudden blip in it but all of a sudden I had noticed my Lab Caches were no longer being included in my stats. I had to go and re-check the box for including lab caches in the statistics. Anyone else encounter this recently? Not a big deal, just was a bit of a surprise when I arrived at my stats today.

What country am I assigned to?

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 17:25:15 +0000

Hi,

When I look at my profile stats (pantadeusz), the first country that shows up is Ireland. I have previously lived in Ireland and it used to be the country where I have the most finds, but that has not been the case for a while. I am wondering by which metric is the first country displayed in a person's stats decided?

Thanks

Faroe Island Map in profile stats

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 13:25:06 +0000

Looking at the map for the Faroe/Faroer islands in the map, there seems to be a weird second image of the map behind and to the right. The main one is colored white and green as expected. The other seems greyed out.

I wonder if the islands are also included in the map for some other country and both are shown. Perhaps the registrations is not good and they are over each other.

Oldest/Youngest cache found interpretation

Sun, 20 Dec 2020 23:32:49 +0000

Hi everyone,

This question may sound ridiculous, but it's really bothering me.
In the profile stats, there is a stat called "Youngest cache found" and "Oldest cache found".
I wonder how "youngest" and "oldest" are interpreted here, since I see 2 ways to interpret this and I would like to know which interpretation Project-GC uses.

Oldest could mean :
1) Simply the cache with the earliest hidden date of all caches I have found. Youngest would then mean the cache with the most recent hidden date I have found, so basically the age of the cache until today is taken into account.
2) The cache that was the oldest when I found it. So the highest number of days between the hidden date and the date I found it. This would mean the youngest would in many cases be a FTF, with an age of less than a day when found.

Kind regards,
AxelFox.