: How to check if your website is trending? I am building a admin stats dashboard for my website. I would like to show on it an indication when an article from my site is trending (gone

@Chiappetta492

It's a formulae. You take the number of hits in period X and the period before X, and if it increased, it's trending.

Ofcourse, this is very simplistic. You should expand this to a few periodes, in which it should grow, and it should be over some threshhold (because going from 1 to 3 hits in 300% increase, but not trending).

The length of a period, or the number of periods you need to check varies on the type of website and number of visitors/activity (high activity = short periods).

Also, take the creationdate into account, the last-activity-date, etc. Think of all the thinks that could be relevant, and form it into the formulae. There is no default function for that.

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