Comment by John_Yuki on 06/08/2018 at 19:36 UTC*

21 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)

View submission: Traffic page update: see your subreddit's traffic split by platform

Suggestions:

All-time traffic records. I currently have a bot that does this for /r/footballmanagergames, but I really feel like it should be something incredibly simple for you guys to do on your end and show in a little box of it's own on the traffic page.

Use line graphs instead of bar charts. I feel like line graphs would look a helluva lot better than bar charts for displaying a value/date combination. I made this chart[1] in Google Sheets to give an example of how I think it could look. It looks much cleaner imo than the screenshot you showed. Not to mention your bar charts are wonky[2]. It would also allow you to display information over a longer period of time more beautifully, as you could just include in a side-scroll bar for people to use to go forward/backwards in time on the graph.

1: https://i.imgur.com/kafXaYD.png

2: https://i.imgur.com/ydBiAtL.png

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Comment by Drunken_Economist at 06/08/2018 at 19:57 UTC

15 upvotes, 1 direct replies

That graph definitely makes for a better app-to-app comparison, but the stacked area is a lot better for comparing overall traffic over time. Granted, though, a stacked area *line* probably would be better than stacked area *bar*

As for the all-time traffic records, it's on our list for the overhaul of the traffic pages! I wouldn't say it's *incredibly* simple, but it's far from impossible.