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The search volume for "web app" spikes every September

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I know the answer!

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...

How did you figure this out?

This has already been discussed around the web.

If you Google “web app” it’s the first hit, which is a good starting point!

I’m addicted to fifa, and EA just announced that the ultimate team web app comes out on wednesday. It always comes out mid september.

The FIFA web app is of particular interest in September not just because that's when the new one comes out, but because you can use the web app for a week or so before the actual game is released.

This means you can buy packs, trade players, and start getting your squad together before you even play the actual game, and this is important if you want to get a jump on other players quickly. Once the game is out, more people just trade in game.

https://www.easports.com/fifa/ultimate-team/coming-soon

The FUT Web App and other FIFA Web features are down for maintenance while we prepare for FIFA 19. The new web app launches on September 19th.

Hey, great to see my post on the front page!

One moment, I will add a fourth chart that shows the popularity of 'web app' when substracting the Fifa effect.

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Ok, I added a chart for which I substracted the values for 'fifa web app' from the values for 'web app'.

The result is a pretty nice trend.

Try comparing to iPhone app instead of iOS app if you want to see what laypeople think

Fall semester student intake :P

Eternal September

I was thinking the same thing. ^__^;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

There's also a band called Eternal September. I always assumed that this is where they took their name but maybe it's a coincidence.

https://vimeo.com/700520

Never heard of that band before. Considering they have an album called "Your Computer Lies" I would say that's probably more than a coincidence they chose that name... ^__^;

This. My website traffic picks back up in September as well. So does the vehicle traffic on my commute.

WTF, Fifa? Correlation does not imply Causation. More likely lots of September students started a web dev class. But that also is not proof of causation.

It's a sub-component. graph("web app") - graph("fifa web app") = expected smooth trend

Fifa is way bigger than you think.

Yup. Fifa games sell 10M+ units yearly.

The number of students starting a new web dev class are... tens of thousands, worldwide? A hundred of thousands?

Soccer is a huge deal outside of the US.

Why would they mix substrings from multiple other search queries, without marking the trend as a union of overlapping queries?

What if order counts, and "app web" != "web app"?

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