Is it right to continue using this "uniques" chart (being that it appears that crawlers or bots or something are a major component)?
I agree it’s probably super inaccurate. There’s no other way to gauge lurkers really though unless we want to start doing less privacy oriented things.
The user numbers are what I would pay attention to.
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126 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 3 Aug 2022
there were definitely crawlers this month, and a big spike in (real) visitors on the day we hit the top of hacker news.
but removing those two from the metrics would have still resulted in a big all-time high in unique visitors… likely in the 33-38k range.
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