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View submission: Traffic page update: see your subreddit's traffic split by platform
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.
Comment by John_Yuki at 06/08/2018 at 20:07 UTC
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The overlapping bar charts just don't look good honestly. It's incredibly messy and difficult to look at. Having the lines separated like in the example I gave makes it way easier to look at and instantly take in the information.
As for the traffic stats, is it really that difficult to do? I made a really janky, poorly programmed bot using PRAW that goes through my subreddits traffic stats and updates the records in just 1-2 seconds. Can the same idea not be applied to every subreddit on the site? On your end it could be done more or less instantaneously right? Or at least as fast as it takes you to update every subreddits traffic stats.