Ayhan Ç

You may want to use

      Plot.windowY({k: windowSize, strict: true}, {

to avoid a distortion at the edges (however minimal).

Fabian Iwand

Wow, new visits drop particularly dramatically, enough so that *something* must have happened, whether that's some change in measuring/reporting or some change which has actually affected new visits. Any idea what caused this?

Ricky Reusser

The drop around the middle of the year for views and visits appears to be seasonal (it becomes clearer when adding `x: {grid: true}`). The lack of recovery may be layoffs?

The sharp drop in new visits _could_ be a change in how they measure them.

Wikipedia reminds us that OpenAI released GPT-3 on March 15, 2022, which does track with the precipitous drop in April 2022.... I think more developers/students were asking ChatGPT directly instead of trawling through Stack Overflow....

Joses W. Ho

It seems to be related to Google Analytics cookie being recategorized as a "performance cookie" (https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/374897/why-is-the-google-analytics-cookie-defined-as-strictly-necessary-and-saved-wit/378440#378440).

Hmm chat gpt released on 11-30-22 and GPT 4 March 14, 2023