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| Cool stuff! Sure beats me keeping a list of articles I need to frequently update. The {{increase}}/{{decrease}} indicators are currently used to indicate the traffic increase over a three month time period. Could you make the bot only change the indicators every three months like alexa.com does? ] ] 13:08, 6 July 2011 (UTC) | Cool stuff! Sure beats me keeping a list of articles I need to frequently update. The {{increase}}/{{decrease}} indicators are currently used to indicate the traffic increase over a three month time period. Could you make the bot only change the indicators every three months like alexa.com does? ] ] 13:08, 6 July 2011 (UTC) | ||
| : Thanks, Marcus. :) It seems that Alexa shows three different indicators for the last day, 7 days, month and three months. I thought one month is a good period to base increases and decreases on. Do you think it gives a statistical/analytical advantage to use three months period? (Please note that we are covering both large websites which rarely change as well as small websites which change every few hours!)--]]] 13:48, 6 July 2011 (UTC) | : Thanks, Marcus. :) It seems that Alexa shows three different indicators for the last day, 7 days, month and three months. I thought one month is a good period to base increases and decreases on. Do you think it gives a statistical/analytical advantage to use three months period? (Please note that we are covering both large websites which rarely change as well as small websites which change every few hours!)--]]] 13:48, 6 July 2011 (UTC) | ||
| ::I think it is best to appease those that dislike ]. The month-by-month inflation or recession of web traffic is subject to the obscure whims of Google's page rank algorithm. The decline or progress of a website cannot be measured on short-term gains or losses. The decline of this was apparent in a two-phased Google attack on ]s. The lulls in-between Google's attacks on crap could register as <nowiki>{{steady}}</nowiki> or worse <nowiki>{{increase}}</nowiki> based on the arbitrary day the bot happens to update the page despite the clear longterm downward trend. As a side note you could add a ~ instead of a "as of" template to demonstrate that the number is an out-of-date approximation. ] ] 14:56, 6 July 2011 (UTC) | |||
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Cool stuff! Sure beats me keeping a list of articles I need to frequently update. The 
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indicators are currently used to indicate the traffic increase over a three month time period. Could you make the bot only change the indicators every three months like alexa.com does? Marcus Qwertyus 13:08, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
- Thanks, Marcus. :) It seems that Alexa shows three different indicators for the last day, 7 days, month and three months. I thought one month is a good period to base increases and decreases on. Do you think it gives a statistical/analytical advantage to use three months period? (Please note that we are covering both large websites which rarely change as well as small websites which change every few hours!)--OsamaK 13:48, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
- I think it is best to appease those that dislike recentism. The month-by-month inflation or recession of web traffic is subject to the obscure whims of Google's page rank algorithm. The decline or progress of a website cannot be measured on short-term gains or losses. The decline of this web site was apparent in a two-phased Google attack on content farms. The lulls in-between Google's attacks on crap could register as {{steady}} or worse {{increase}} based on the arbitrary day the bot happens to update the page despite the clear longterm downward trend. As a side note you could add a ~ instead of a "as of" template to demonstrate that the number is an out-of-date approximation. Marcus Qwertyus 14:56, 6 July 2011 (UTC)