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Similarweb doesn't show any significant change: https://www.similarweb.com/website/news.ycombinator.com#over...

Seems to be Alexa's bug, not HN's.

I'm also seeing a similar large drop in reddit traffic https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/reddit.com

The Alexa chart is rank among other web sites. The Similarweb chart shows number of visits. Apples and oranges. It's possible that they are both correct. Similarweb shows a small decrease in number of visits.

It could be that there are thousands of sites with a similar number of visits. A small drop in number of visits might cause a huge drop in rank.

Also that other sites in the same 'bracket' increase number of visits. Even if HN's visits were increasing, they could still be rising faster.

Also when a site has been around for long you have to start taking into account the 'population growth'; how many new people gained access to the web this month? How many among those are tech-savy people? Does this proportion increase or decrease over time?

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