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I found it hard to be sure squinting at the graph, so here is one including the ratio: http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hn6ratio.png http://www.ycombinator.com
by tlb 14y ago
I found it hard to be sure squinting at the graph, so here is one including the ratio: http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hn6ratio.png http://www.ycombinator.com/images/hn6ratio.png
One trend over the last couple years is more people checking from multiple devices -- more IPs for the same page views.
Another macro change in the last couple years is blogs linking to an HN comment thread. Those links often bring one page view & one IP.
Spikes in page views without a corresponding spike in IPs in the early years are due to crawlers.
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoThat seems to me a fairly consistent ratio of 10 pages per ip (per day). So your conjecture is we have doubled the number of pages each person views but doubled the number of devices viewed on too, so no overall change to the ratio. Is there any way to see growth of registered accounts over time - it might serve as a proxy for "lurkers" and might indicate the proportion of actual people to unique IPs? Ie if accounts has grown half as fast as uniq IPs it's reasonable to assume we all have two devices and look at twice as many pages. If it's a similar growth pattern, we spend less time on HN. (of course if you track accounts and IPs that would help more:-)