The Long Time - Organic search traffic for two sites

Figure 1: Organic search traffic for two sites since January 1, 2007. GroundTruthTrekking.org (gtt), in blue, has been actively maintained and updated since its inception in early 2007, while AKTrekking.com has been nearly unchanged in that time (it was launched in 2003 I think). In both 2011 and 2012, traffic doubled during a period of about 2 months in the fall. In previous years, this same period likewise marked a similar increase in traffic. This fall increase, a dramatic holiday lull, a broad but distinct drop in traffic in the summer, and strong weekly cycles – all match the schedule of a typical student, suggesting that a major driver of our traffic may be students researching issues that we cover. Note the vertical axis is a log-axis; see my sidebar on reading log axes if you want to know more.
— Figure 1: Organic search traffic for two sites since January 1, 2007. GroundTruthTrekking.org (gtt), in blue, has been actively maintained and updated since its inception in early 2007, while AKTrekking.com has been nearly unchanged in that time (it was launched in 2003 I think). In both 2011 and 2012, traffic doubled during a period of about 2 months in the fall. In previous years, this same period likewise marked a similar increase in traffic. This fall increase, a dramatic holiday lull, a broad but distinct drop in traffic in the summer, and strong weekly cycles – all match the schedule of a typical student, suggesting that a major driver of our traffic may be students researching issues that we cover. Note the vertical axis is a log-axis; see my sidebar on reading log axes if you want to know more.

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