<story><title>Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web</title><url>https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BatFastard</author><text>This analysis is flawed in that it equates size of traffic with individual user actions. Of course YouTube or another video heavy site like FB is going to dominate when only size is considered.&lt;p&gt;A better metric would be a measurement of user initiated actions. Now sure how to pull that off, but it would be a more accurate measure of how the net is changing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawayReply</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s reasonably captured by the &amp;quot;upstream&amp;quot; table which isn&amp;#x27;t as weighted by large content.&lt;p&gt;Besides, the direction and relative values show clear and growing dominance.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web</title><url>https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>BatFastard</author><text>This analysis is flawed in that it equates size of traffic with individual user actions. Of course YouTube or another video heavy site like FB is going to dominate when only size is considered.&lt;p&gt;A better metric would be a measurement of user initiated actions. Now sure how to pull that off, but it would be a more accurate measure of how the net is changing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inglor</author><text>There are a lot of other video content websites that aren&amp;#x27;t YouTube and are struggling to compete with the large players like YouTube and Netflix that can put a box in every ISP in the world.</text></comment>