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I’m curious what seasonal effects you hypothesize might be in play here. I don’t know enough about the browser performance space to understand what might change
by alwa 3y ago
I’m curious what seasonal effects you hypothesize might be in play here. I don’t know enough about the browser performance space to understand what might change: do people really consume a different mix of web technologies through their browsers seasonally?
It looks to my naive eyes like the trajectories here are consistent and that the “signal” looks bigger than the variance. The measurements seen consistent with a bunch of smart engineers working to optimize for them during the time period they were measured.
At the same time you’re right: that big August improvement might well have something to do with Northern-hemisphere people switching to lighter vacation reading rather than just the Firefox 116 release happening to drop August 1. I’d share your interest in the longer timescale.
- Osmose 3y agoTo the first question: Yes. An example would be travel sites and shopping sites getting way more use during holidays. A big one is always December: end of the year holidays mess with usage metrics a ton given how many people take off work or spend time away from their computers, to the point that most companies I've worked at tend to ignore data from that month or try to be very careful about only comparing it to data from December in other years.