That's strange... the graph directly corresponds with the rising popularity of DuckDuckGo.
"An improvement to our data collection system was applied from 1/1/16"
Coincidence??
And yes... the decline started well before that!!
The comic #2094 could be based on that graph.
... tomorrow's comic? Hi, Randall?
That comic does not exist?
Squiggly line plots get old after a while. No narrative plot probably means, like me, people don't stick around after the novelty wears off.
I don't see how searches for xkcd being in decline necessarily means that xkcd itself is.
Exactly, most browsers nowadays will autosuggest the full domain if you give "xkcd" as input.
If we use the same criteria, google itself is at its hugest decline.
I just type x and then hit enter.
or perhaps more and more people use adblocks?
I don't think it's that. I can only speak from my experience, but it seems like web comics have been replaced more by memes and I see a lot less of them, especially XKCD.