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It's averaged over 365 days. Selecting 10/1 day show a different story: DuckDuckGo progress as stagnated in 2021.
by Kuinox 5y ago
It's averaged over 365 days.
Selecting 10/1 day show a different story:
DuckDuckGo progress as stagnated in 2021.
- throwaway64643 5y agoThat's how you lie with statistics.
- hu3 5y agoInteresting: https://i.imgur.com/Ahy0GtP.png https://i.imgur.com/Ahy0GtP.png Any speculation on the causes of the plateau?
- contravariant 5y agoCould be a plateau, or it could be a temporary peak somewhere around January last year.
- toto444 5y agoMy theory is that the growth in 2020 was boosted by the lockdowns and it is now back to where it would have been without COVID.
- eitland 5y agoGoogle has stepped up their fight against it. Not by improving their own quality but by throwing more roadblocks in front of Chrome users who want to use DDG.
- dredmorbius 5y agoSpecific examples? (NB: long-time DDG user myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879227 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5879227)
- eitland 5y agoIt was discussed on HN 4 days ago although it seems to have been flagged off the front page or something after a very short time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813079
- dredmorbius 5y agoThat happens to be my own submission, FWIW. DDG is accusing Google of manipulating browser-extension standards for Google's own benefit, FWIW. (Discussing specific examples in contenxt is often useful.) That particular issue seems to have more bearing on DDG's attempts at creating its own browser than of Google specifically thwarting DDG's search.
- eitland 5y ago> That happens to be my own submission, FWIW. Ok, I felt something was odd but didn't connect the dots as I was to quick :-D Anyways, thanks!
- sam_goody 5y agoI try to avoid Chrome.. what roadblocks?
- eitland 5y agoSee my reply to dredmorbius (sibling comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=29861689 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=29861689 (I think there is some automation to prevent duplicate content so I link to it instead.)
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- dredmorbius 5y agoNB: for virtually all real-world human-behaviour data, smoothing intervals in multiples of 7 days are the best choice as they smooth out weekly usage patterns. Try 7, 14, 21, and 28 day smoothing as alternatives to 10. Note that 7-day averaging results in far less variance than 10-day, despite being a smaller interval.
- jengland 5y agoFWIW, here's a graph[0] of the log of the data[1]. I find it's hard to eye-ball exponentials correctly without taking the log. [0]: https://imgur.com/a/E7OBAX6 https://imgur.com/a/E7OBAX6 [1]: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic_data/direct.csv https://duckduckgo.com/traffic_data/direct.csv
- smarx007 5y ago28 or 90 day average shows essentially the same thing but with less noise. Showing a 365 day average is actually good for the casual observer to remove holiday/seasonal fluctuations and show YoY growth.
- the-dude 5y agoThey have lost me for the moment.
- divbzero 5y agoI was looking for a comment like this. To me this is the real news. This is the first time I’ve seen DuckDuckGo Traffic not look like a steady exponential. With the 365-day rolling average you can see growth leveling off noticeably by the end of 2021. Without the rolling average you can see an unusual spike in Jan 2021 followed by a V for the remainder of the year.