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Cool stuff! Sure beats me keeping a list of articles I need to frequently update. The / 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 As a side note you could add a ~ instead of a "as of" template to demonstrate that the number is an out-of-date approximation.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)