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This data is meaningless because: 1. There is no benchmark and we need one because SimilarWeb is based on a panel. The less people in that panel, the less tota
by AznHisoka 8y ago
This data is meaningless because:
1. There is no benchmark and we need one because SimilarWeb is based on a panel. The less people in that panel, the less total traffic to any website.
2. Most likely cause is more app usage and less desktop usage.
Also can we please stop using SimilarWeb as some sort of authority reference? Their panel isnt humongous. Despite the fact they pay Chrome extension owners and later hijack the code to track everyone who installs it.
- seano314 8y agoAgreed. By chance do you have references on SimilarWeb paying "Chrome extension owners and later hijack the code to track everyone who installs it"? Curious to learn more about exactly what they're doing here.
- AznHisoka 8y agohttps://www.howtogeek.com/180175/warning-your-browser-extensions-are-spying-on-you/ https://www.howtogeek.com/180175/warning-your-browser-extens...
- bonniemuffin 8y agoI was also noticing this-- that the graph shows desktop+mobile WEB, but not native app use. If people are switching from mobile web to native app, this graph would decrease even if more people are using facebook every day, right?
- dx034 8y agoI agree that they can't track native app use but think their data might not be too far off. I just compared a few pages where I have access to traffic data and similarweb estimates aren't too far off, more exact than I had expected. But that could be different for very popular sites.
- jazoom 8y agoSimilarweb's guess of my site's traffic has been absurdly wrong for years. It thinks the traffic has been wildly fluctuating but it's only ever gone up.