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charliemcdanger
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I assume they just threw darts at a number chart. Either that or cookies, EULAs, Amazon controlling most web traffic, something something something. Teckmology is amazing!
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At least in terms of DVXuser, there's no way to know this stuff.
charliemcdanger
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Please don't take offense, but this is naive. The companies who do these analytics (primarily Google and Amazon) have a perfectly easy way to know this and a lot more stuff that would be even more impressive/scary to see in a graph.
I suspect you're underestimating a) the amount of personal information people freely and unknowingly divulge while surfing; b) the sophistication of large web players; and c) the power of sampling methodologies across large populations.
If Google merely aggregates visitors' zip codes and what sites they visit before and after DVXuser, it doesn't take more than few thousand hits before Google has an extremely accurate picture of site demographics. And in fact they have much better info than this.
Anyway, the graphs above are taken from Amazon's analytics (check Alexa.com and punch in a few sites). Pretty eye-opening stuff, and interesting to play around with.
Regardless of whatever dvxuser.com admins' policy is, any given visitor's ISP, any ad agency injecting frames into pages, maybe the browser the person is using, the OS they are using it all within, and on and on -- are all aggregating info about aspects of all IP traffic and associating it with a device ID (which almost always can be easily linked to a specific person). There is no anonymity on the internet for the vast majority of users, period.
It looks meaningless to me. What is 'internet average' and what do the bars represent? Even if you do know what the internet average is, I'm not sure you can figure out what the bars mean. For example, let's say the internet viewing average is 60% female. That becomes the center line of the male/female bars. Now look at the first male/female bars. The male bar is almost fully filled. What does that mean? Is the male viewership 10% above average, 2x average, 10x average?