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Drops like that are either due to how bots are tracked, a Google algo change, or a major internal design change.
by dehrmann 3y ago
Drops like that are either due to how bots are tracked, a Google algo change, or a major internal design change.
- notatoad 3y agoor else bad measurement. the post doesn't explain where they got these traffic numbers, and it seems unlikely they have access to stackoverflow's real traffic stats. they're using some sort of estimation here. there's always a chance that their estimates are wrong - especially if they're showing implausible shifts like this.
- mananaysiempre 3y ago> it seems unlikely they have access to stackoverflow's real traffic stats. The question and user profile view stats (among other things) are public on the Data Explorer and included in the dumps: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2677/database-schema-documentation-for-the-public-data-dump-and-sede https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2677/database-schem... Not sure what they’re counting as a “visit”, though.