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That makes sense. "New visits" are first time users, likely young coders who are looking up answers to things on a search engine, find what they're looking for
by CobrastanJorji 3y ago
That makes sense. "New visits" are first time users, likely young coders who are looking up answers to things on a search engine, find what they're looking for on Stack Overflow, maybe click on an ad, and leave. They probably don't vote or post much. A sudden die-off there suggests something very bad happened to organic traffic (change in Google? Terrible new SEO scheme? A sudden stop in ad buys?)
The new content rate been dropping at a dismally constant rate for a long time, but the first few months in 2023 were awfully grim. I wonder what might've corresponded to that.
- AtNightWeCode 3y agoIf SO was worried about that drop I think they would have bought back some of that traffic. More likely something has changed how they count the visits or they blocked some bad traffic. Traffic data is often sampled as well. The fall in the beginning of 2023 may be the introduction of ChatGPT. A more worrying idea is that the numbers reflect not just the decline of SO but a decline of the whole IT business.
- moneywoes 3y agoPerhaps they focus more on their enterprise offerings now?