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I was checking Quantcast's US Internet rank for AnalyticBridge, and found that it went significantly better in the last 6 months: from 140,000 to below 90,000. Yet the our traffic volume experienced only a 25% improvement over the same time period.
You would expect that a 25% increase in volume (for a top 100,000 website) would result in a far less than 25% - maybe a mere 10% - improvement in rank because of the very peculiar nature of web traffic distribution across all domains: heavy tail distribution, billions of domains, with very few - less than 10,000 - having tremendous amounts of traffic and accounting for 98% of all Internet traffic. It's similar to revenue distribution: if you are in the top 5 percentiles and increase your revenue by 25%, your rank (in the list of the wealthiest people) will probably increase by less than 10%.
Anyway, I'd like to see whether this is a general phenomenon (that is, the Internet is really shrinking) or whether this is a data anomaly due to Quantcast changing its metrics or due to some other, domain-specific artifact.
There are some reasons why the Internet could be shrinking:
What do you think is the correct explanation? In any case, it's an interesting "big data" question.
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