"Gary" wrote

I cleaned, fixed, checked and finally uploaded all my
recorded contacts for the past 11 years and after
doing so the LoTW web page reported back
to me the number of confirmed contacts--totaling 3%
of what I entered.

Hi Gary,

I have about 28,000 QSO's entered into LoTW, and just under 2,600
confirmations. The QSO's I entered are those I've made since I started
using computer logging in the late 80's (I didn't go back and key in any
paper logs). So my 'return rate' is just over 9%, but it is not uniform
over the years. The more recent years (2002, 2003) have return rates in
the 30% range, and there are almost no confirmations prior to about
1995.

Is there any practical way to see which stations are confirmed?

Yes, there's a search engine which allows you to display only those
contacts which have been confirmed by the system, sorted by call or by
date (and maybe some other choices I don't remember right now.

The lions share of my QSL's are from contesters, and 90% are US
stations, although I have returns from 67 countries. Currently there
are only about 7,000 individuals who have entered data into the system.

The DXCC 'engine' will come on line Wednesday, finally giving some
'output' from LoTW, and I'd expect that will draw a lot more logs into
the system. Also, the major logging programs are starting to deploy
products which 'automagically' input data to LoTW without separate
action on the part of the operator. As this capability becomes
ubiquitous in logging software, I think the level of participation will
rapidly rise. People may not be aggressive in capturing old log data
and sending it to LoTW, but going forward we'll likely see a quickly
rising percentage of returns on 'new' QSO's.

73, de Hans, K0HB