Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April

Re:Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April by alex_young on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:38PM (#17034881)

Appears to be based on this: https://www.similarweb.com/website/facebook.com

Anyone know if it has any statistical significance? I have my doubts just from the presentation.

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Re:Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April by brettz on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:43PM (#17034921)

I use SimilarWeb Pro and compare it to internal analytics and the variances are often incorrect. Also this is website visits only when most FB activity would be on native apps.

If you zoom out you can see that Facebook's web traffic has been on the downtrend for awhile https://i.imgur.com/e9Mgjby.png. Also April has one less day than March which wasn't mentioned.

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Re:Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April by AznHisoka on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:46PM (#17034944)

Their stats can be incredibly inaccurate. Yes they have perhaps the biggest internet panel, but there are still lots more people who dont install browser plugins (especially those in non-first world countries).

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Re:Facebook monthly visits down 5% in April by alex_young on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:47PM (#17034957)

Thanks, that provides some context I missed. It looks like the April drop is mostly expected and unrelated to the CA stuff.

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