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This is comparing pre-Christmas-day traffic to Christmas-day traffic. Many people spend December 25th doing very different things than they do other days of th

This is comparing pre-Christmas-day traffic to Christmas-day traffic. Many people spend December 25th doing very different things than they do other days of the year.

rlt3 13y ago
I'd say it probably has something to do with Google penalizing them. A lot of people get new albums from the holidays and would want to look up lyrics.
- jjaredsimpson 13y ago
  either way, 1 data point isn't a trend. wait and see is the best course of action.
thehodge 13y ago
If you compare last years Quantcast traffic on christmas day to this years.. it wasn't that much of a drop compared to the few days surrounding it.
ZitchDog 13y ago
A good way to account for this is to look at year-over-year change. It looks like on Dec 25 last year, they took a 13% hit[1]. So it appears that their 60% hit today should be tempered a bit, to account for this. Even still, I think we can say that this is a very bad day for Rap Genius - especially when you consider that they have a lot of artificial publicity due to the currently unfolding scandal. [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/lidlugtdycdrrnx/Screenshot%202013-12-26%2008.42.37.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/lidlugtdycdrrnx/Screenshot%202013-...
Goopplesoft 13y ago
The next top result for lyrics thats 'Quantified' on that site: https://www.quantcast.com/lyricsfreak.com?qcLocale=en_US https://www.quantcast.com/lyricsfreak.com?qcLocale=en_US shows a slight drop. Edit: Google Trends for 'lyrics' the past month http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=lyrics&date=today%201-m&cmpt=date http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=lyrics&date=today%201...
freebs 13y ago
They're on page 7 for their brand name. Christmas probably had little to do with that drop. https://www.google.com/search?q=rap+genius&oq=rap+genius&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j69i61j69i60.1378j0j1&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&espv=210&q=rap+genius&start=60 https://www.google.com/search?q=rap+genius&oq=rap+genius&aqs...
officemonkey 13y ago
Like nobody posting to Facebook in the morning, combined with completely crashing Steam in the afternoon.

This is comparing pre-Christmas-day traffic to Christmas-day traffic. Many people spend December 25th doing very different things than they do other days of the year.

rlt3 13y ago

I'd say it probably has something to do with Google penalizing them. A lot of people get new albums from the holidays and would want to look up lyrics.

jjaredsimpson 13y ago
either way, 1 data point isn't a trend. wait and see is the best course of action.

thehodge 13y ago

If you compare last years Quantcast traffic on christmas day to this years.. it wasn't that much of a drop compared to the few days surrounding it.

ZitchDog 13y ago

A good way to account for this is to look at year-over-year change. It looks like on Dec 25 last year, they took a 13% hit[1]. So it appears that their 60% hit today should be tempered a bit, to account for this. Even still, I think we can say that this is a very bad day for Rap Genius - especially when you consider that they have a lot of artificial publicity due to the currently unfolding scandal. [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/lidlugtdycdrrnx/Screenshot%202013-12-26%2008.42.37.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/lidlugtdycdrrnx/Screenshot%202013-...

Goopplesoft 13y ago

The next top result for lyrics thats 'Quantified' on that site: https://www.quantcast.com/lyricsfreak.com?qcLocale=en_US https://www.quantcast.com/lyricsfreak.com?qcLocale=en_US shows a slight drop. Edit: Google Trends for 'lyrics' the past month http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=lyrics&date=today%201-m&cmpt=date http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=lyrics&date=today%201...

freebs 13y ago

They're on page 7 for their brand name. Christmas probably had little to do with that drop. https://www.google.com/search?q=rap+genius&oq=rap+genius&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60j69i61j69i60.1378j0j1&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&espv=210&q=rap+genius&start=60 https://www.google.com/search?q=rap+genius&oq=rap+genius&aqs...

officemonkey 13y ago

Like nobody posting to Facebook in the morning, combined with completely crashing Steam in the afternoon.