Comment 10 for bug 557432

spm was kind enough to run this query over some recent data and the results are interesting:

  23015 -importance
   1104 -datecreated
   1083 -date_last_updated
    160 status
    125 datecreated
     42 -heat
     28 date_last_updated
     26 milestone
     25 -users_affected_count
     10 -number_of_duplicates
      6 targetname
      6 -message_count
      1 title

I suspect importance is overweighted because it's the default, and will be hit by the default advanced search, by people just pressing search to get a fuller list, and by robots. How much it is overweighted is hard to tell, but if we changed the default that would give us some data.

What this does tell me is that all of importance, datecreated or date_last_updated are much more popular with users than heat is.