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Google Trends - A bigger picture

Which site jumps up and down so much?
the end of slashdot?
Google Trends - A bigger picture by krazydad / jbum.
I made this graph by aggregating data from Google Trends for about 150 domains, including the Alexa Top 100.

There is an interactive version, which uses this same data, here:

www.coverpop.com/bigpicture/

The lines are colored according to the slope - red when going up, and blue when going down.

The graph is logarithmic, so that low traffic websites can be shown together with high traffic ones.

The line at the top is yahoo.com. Google does not provide traffic data for it's own websites, such as google, youtube and orkut.

The extra bumpy line in the top section is Mozilla.com, whose traffic gets big spikes when there are new releases of Firefox.

The section near the middle, where all the lines turn blue, appears to be the Christmas holiday. 
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GustavoG  Pro User  says:

The presence of vertical clusters is very intriguing. I can't but wonder about the statistical significance of the observation.
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krazydad / jbum  Pro User  says:

It could just be random, of course. But my impression, based on the nature of the websites that cluster at those ceilings (and the nature of the websites that get past those ceilings) is that the business / communications model of the website has something do to with it...

Check out the interactive version at www.coverpop.com/bigpicture/

to see what the identities of those websites are...

Also note that the thinning out below the two fat bands is due to lack of data - that is where the Alexa top 100 ends. The websites below that are just ones I've cherry picked from my OPML file.
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krazydad / jbum  Pro User  says:

The site that jumps up and down that you attached the note to is Mozilla.org. I assume the jumps correspond to releases of new versions of Firefox.
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krazydad / jbum  Pro User  says:

Another interesting thing to me is the difference between valleywag (which is very bumpy) and reddit (which is very flat). I believe one thing that may be a factor here are the very different RSS formats the two sites use. reddit's RSS file does not encourage traffic to the site, whereas valleywag does.
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GustavoG  Pro User  says:

I'm kind of surprised at the location of slashdot on this graph.
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krazydad / jbum  Pro User  says:

slashdot.com or slashdot.org? slashdot.org is somewhere betrween reddit.com and digg.com...
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Wonderlane  Pro User  says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Engineering is Art, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

"Defining boundaries for engineering and art is almost impossible. Everything can be a product of engineering. Actually, everything IS a product of engineering. So what's this group about? It's about things that make you think about the mind who's behind what is visible. Share the feeling you have when you look at a slender bridge, a lean tower, a creative machine. Appreciate the creativity driven by technology and the technology applied with creativity." -pikkus
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onemorechris  Pro User  says:

Strange that Mozilla goes up ad down so much! What happened in Jan2008? Nearly all the graphs drop at the same time? (interesting stuff btw!)
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