{"id":526,"date":"2007-01-25T07:24:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T07:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2015-01-13T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T08:39:55","slug":"interesting-semi-logarithmic-graph-youtube-traffic-rank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/interesting-semi-logarithmic-graph-youtube-traffic-rank-526","title":{"rendered":"Interesting semi-logarithmic graph - YouTube Traffic Rank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The growth in popularity of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\">YouTube<\/a> has been extraordinary. It has gone from an unknown, unheard-of site (not even in the top 100,000 sites, so off the scale) to the 5th highest ranked site on the Web, all in the space of 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>This image, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/siteinfo\/youtube.com\">Alexa<\/a>, is an interesting example of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/exponential-logarithmic-functions\/7-graphs-log-semilog.php\">semi-logarithmic graph<\/a>. The vertical scale (traffic rank) is logarithmic, while the horizontal scale (time) is linear.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image527\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/01\/youtube.gif\" alt=\"YouTube\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/interesting-semi-logarithmic-graph-youtube-traffic-rank-526#comments\" id=\"comms\">7 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has gone from obscurity to the 5th highest ranking website in just 18 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[134,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}