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Bernie.com soaring past Hillary.com and Trump.com in traffic (Original Post) leftcoastmountains Sep 2015 OP
I Will No Longer Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go cantbeserious Sep 2015 #1
That graph doesn't make sense. PatrickforO Sep 2015 #2
thank you. the vertical axis makes no sense.nt magical thyme Sep 2015 #3
The title of the chart is "Daily Global Rank Trend" so nilram Sep 2015 #4
Thanks. That helps. PatrickforO Sep 2015 #5
So, coming out of nowhere (name-recognition wise) and spending next to nothing, berniesanders.com merrily Sep 2015 #6
this is the kind of right on post restorefreedom Sep 2015 #7
Thank you, restorefreedom! merrily Sep 2015 #8
most welcome, merrily! nt restorefreedom Sep 2015 #10
Google results have also changed Disabled15 Sep 2015 #9

PatrickforO

(14,577 posts)
2. That graph doesn't make sense.
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 09:26 PM
Sep 2015

It looks like the Bernie line is WAY up until you look at the scale printed on the vertical axis. The way she has it set up time goes horizontally from left to right, but hits start at zero at the top of the vertical axis and increase as one moves down instead of increasing as one moves up as in virtually every other line graph one could make.

(I assume that's hits on the vertical axis, though we don't know 'per day,' 'per week,' 'per month' because the axis is POORLY labeled).

All that aside, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Bernie's website gets twice as many hits as Trump's and maybe a third more than Clinton's.

nilram

(2,888 posts)
4. The title of the chart is "Daily Global Rank Trend" so
Sat Sep 5, 2015, 10:03 PM
Sep 2015

it's a popularity contest. The numbers on the vertical axis are how the pages are ranked, where #1 would be better than #80,000. Looks like currently berniesanders.com is ranked as 7,527th most popular (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/berniesanders.com), hillaryclinton.com is 19,201th (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/hillaryclinton.com), and donaldtrump.com is 22,511th (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/donaldtrump.com). For comparison, whitehouse.gov is 5,195th (http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/whitehouse.gov).

merrily

(45,251 posts)
6. So, coming out of nowhere (name-recognition wise) and spending next to nothing, berniesanders.com
Sun Sep 6, 2015, 09:22 AM
Sep 2015

is not far from whitehouse.gov? Does anyone want to contemplate that for at least 80 seconds?

Disabled15

(60 posts)
9. Google results have also changed
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 10:29 AM
Sep 2015

Months ago when typing in his name in search bar, you had to almost type the entire name.
Now, just a few letters. (On private browsing, multiple cleared cookies computers, so I don't believe it's just me).
Not sure how it all works, but I believe the algorithm runs on popularity.

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