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AirBnB lost half of the traffic in 5 months
- bigiain 15y agoI can't see the graphs in the article (on the iPad in a cafe), but I wonder how closely the traffic slump correlates with the bad press they got late last year over the girl who's apartment was trashed?
- proofpeer_com 15y agoIt's about travelling and therefore going to be highly seasonal. You need to see data from a couple of years to really see a trend.
- mrgordon 15y agoYeah, people were booking for the holidays ahead of time during the summer. The holidays are peak time for Airbnb and other travel companies so I'm not sure what the original poster thinks this shows exactly. Certainly people weren't traveling less in December!
- nathanblec 15y agoTwo points: (1) this is U.S. traffic only --- more than half of our traffic is international (2) the slump corresponds with the seasonality of U.S. travelers; compare with vrbo.com for a similar example.
- picasso81 15y agoSo did Kayak and every other travel site. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/kayak.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/kayak.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/expedia.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/expedia.com/ It's seasonality and it happens every year.