Random graphs

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 01:00 am
charmian: a snowy owl (Default)
[personal profile] charmian
(note, you might need to be logged into google to see the full graph)

Was bored and looking at Google Trends, randomly.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=myspace.com&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

In the past year, Myspace has lost over 50% of its traffic.

This made me curious to see how LJ was doing.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=livejournal.com&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0

Globally, LJ has stayed stable, with around two million daily visitors.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=livejournal.com&geo=RU&date=ytd&sort=0

In Russia, traffic has risen significantly over the past year, to around over ~1.4 (maybe 1.5) million.

http://trends.google.com/websites?q=livejournal.com&geo=US&date=ytd&sort=0

In about a year, the US daily visitor traffic, however, has gone from ~500K to somewhat under ~400K. This represents around a 20% decline. (Thusly, Russian traffic is about three times the size of US traffic, and the US contributes 20% of LJ's visitors, if Google Trends' stats are correct.)

Date: 2011-02-02 04:28 pm (UTC)
sub_divided: cos it gets me through, hope you never stop (Default)
From: [personal profile] sub_divided
I'm happy Russian users are there to prop up the service. I realized this the other day when I was looking for old band interviews, and I found that they'd disappeared from everywhere on the web (even archive.org) except for the LJ comm where people'd been collecting and reposting them.

Date: 2011-02-02 09:16 pm (UTC)
sophie: A cartoon-like representation of a girl standing on a hill, with brown hair, blue eyes, a flowery top, and blue skirt. ☀ (Default)
From: [personal profile] sophie
The fact that LJ is popular in Russia is by no means new, and the rise of Russian users last year is about the same as the year before that. I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be maintained.

Date: 2011-02-02 09:39 pm (UTC)
starlady: the DW logo in red against a blurred background (dreamwidth)
From: [personal profile] starlady
Wow, MySpace, 50% of its traffic lost? Wow.

That said, if LJ traffic breaks down to 60% Russia, 20% U.S., and 20% elsewhere, it makes sense for LJ to put all of its money into development on the Russian side.

Tumblr and LJ

Date: 2011-02-03 05:20 am (UTC)
petronia: (Default)
From: [personal profile] petronia
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=tumblr.com,+livejournal.com&geo=US&date=all&sort=0

The graph looks the same for all Western countries I checked. Russian traffic is such that LJ's overall traffic is increasing, though, so overall they're running neck to neck. XD;

The trend line for Farmville.com crossed LJ's at almost the exact same time as Tumblr's. COINCIDENCE??

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