South African newspaper
Its quietest recent week still sits 840% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.
Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.
How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.
Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.
Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.
No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.
The Mail & Guardian, formerly the Weekly Mail, is a South African weekly newspaper and website, published by M&G Media in Johannesburg, South Africa. It focuses on political analysis, investigative reporting, Southern African news, local arts, music and popular culture.