“Daily Traffic Trend” not reporting daily
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With the last update or the one before the “Daily Traffic Trend” report changed, so that it won’t display daily data anymore. Rather, it will aggregate data for weekly or monthly periods, depending on the time range of the graph.
This was an important feature to me that I could e. g. check which day had the most traffic this year by looking at the curve and then mousing over the highest point. Right now everything is averaged out and smoothed to the point of being useless. Especially since the curves trail off at the edges of the diagram, which in no way represents the real data.
Can I remove the “smoothing” and display the real data again?
Kind regards,
Ulrich
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Hello,
Thank you for verifying the problematic behavior that I am encountering myself. It seems that I did not explain the problem clearly enough, so let me try again:
I would like to find the days with the most, second most and third most traffic in the last year. Previously I could display the data for one year and hover over the highest points in the graph and that day’s data was displayed.
This feature was removed.
The data is now averaged over a period of time, whereas previously it was displayed “as is”. If I want to get daily data, I have to display every single month of a year, which is obviously completely tedious to do 12 times in a row. And what if I enter a custom range over 2 years? I need to go through 24 months one by one and write down the three highest days and then consult my piece of paper to find among the 24×3 days I noted the three highest ones manually. I mean, that can’t seriously be asked of the user of a digital product.
The yearly graph is now useless to me. It does not display anything of interest – basically it is just a smoothed out, straight line that trails off towards the end, because we don’t have the December data yet. But this display also skews the November data (and probably January as well), which I find completely nuts:
So, is it possible to get the old graphs back? Maybe as a paid feature?
Dear @mhdizmni
I’m sorry, I misspoke at first, because I did not understand the changes. I’ll edit this post to remove the previous erroneous content.
The interval selector works differently for weekly, monthly and daily and I was only looking at weekly and monthly, which still return averages. But the daily selector now gives me access to the real data, which was my main issue. Thank you for fixing that and I think we now have the best of both worlds: we can see averages if we prefer that or the real, uninterpreted data if we prefer that.
Kind regards,
Ulrich
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