On: Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web

[tyingq]

Edit: Removed bad "simple english graph", thanks. Though the regular english wikipedia traffic is flat from 2016-present.

As for NYT, is there a better proxy to compare to? There's no public pageview stats and they have a paywall.

[magicalist → tyingq]

That first graph is Simple English, not English, and is in millions, not billions. They also explicitly call out the methodology change in 2015...