{"id":5152,"date":"2010-09-22T16:30:59","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T08:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2010-09-22T16:40:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T08:40:17","slug":"saturday-is-gmail-day-monday-is-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/saturday-is-gmail-day-monday-is-not-5152","title":{"rendered":"Saturday is gmail day, Monday is not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google's Transparency Report<\/a> has some interesting real-life data visualizations.<\/p>\n

For example, it shows peak gmail activity for the USA is on Saturdays (each of the peaks in the graph is a Saturday) and least activity is on Mondays. Is that consistent with your email activity?<\/p>\n

\"google-mail-statistics\"<\/p>\n

The lowest ever gmail activity (in the range shown) was Friday May 21, 2010. Any ideas why less mails were sent on that day? Or was there a technical glitch on Google's part?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Singapore's gmail activity is so regular, it looks like a heartbeat. Top days in Singapore are Sundays and troughs occur every Friday.<\/p>\n

\"singapore-gmail\"<\/p>\n

Google Docs is much less periodic in nature - there is a fairly even spread throughout the days of the week (I expected week days to be higher than weekends) and throughout the year (except of course Christmas \/ New Year when everything goes quiet on the Web).<\/p>\n

What surprised me was the following YouTube graph, showing a 28% drop from the \"index\" of 87 to the low of this week at 62 (Google have not given absolute numbers, rather they present the data as ranging from 0 to 100).<\/p>\n

\"youtube-traffic\"<\/p>\n

This is not consistent with Alexa's YouTube traffic statistics<\/a>, which indicate a slight drop over the last 2 years, but still show YouTube as being either #3 or #4 most popular site on the Web.<\/p>\n

One main reason Google share this information is to show when information is being blocked. See how China's traffic is all over the place, demonstrating their ever-increasing (and futile?) attempts to censor the Web. As Google says:<\/p>\n

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By showing outages, this tool visualizes disruptions in the free flow of information, whether it's a government blocking information or a cable being cut.<\/p>\n

For example, the graphs show that YouTube has been inaccessible in Iran since June 12, 2009, following the disputed presidential election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That link again: Transparency Report<\/a><\/p>\n

Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"maps-traffic\"<\/a>Why do people access Google maps least on a Sunday? And why is gmail traffic so periodic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[131,134,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}