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Community Health Index - Lithium

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defining the CHI<br />

health factors<br />

Our goal in introducing the <strong>Community</strong> <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Index</strong> (CHI)<br />

is to provide a standard of measurement that all online<br />

communities can use. To that end, this section describes the<br />

representation of the six health factors as well as a formula<br />

for combining them.<br />

Members<br />

The standard measure for Members is the registration<br />

metric that all communities track. In the formulas that follow,<br />

Members is represented by μ.<br />

Content<br />

The two standard metrics that contribute to calculating content<br />

utility are posts and page views. Posts (represented by

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