Website Traffic — Area Chart Example

An area chart is a line chart with the region below it filled. Use it when the cumulative volume matters as much as the trend.

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Area chart of Organic, Paid, Referral by Week — 12 data points.
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Reading the chart

What this example shows

  • Organic traffic grows steadily while paid traffic oscillates with campaign timing — two very different growth mechanics.
  • Referral traffic is small but compounds monotonically, never dipping across the twelve weeks.
  • Turn on stacking to read total sessions instead; unstacked, the series overlap and compare individually.

The data

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Week,Organic,Paid,Referral
W1,4200,1800,620
W2,4410,1920,680
W3,4380,2050,710
W4,4720,1740,745
W5,5010,1680,802
W6,5240,1910,864
W7,5180,2240,910
W8,5620,2380,952
W9,5910,2110,1024
W10,6240,1960,1088
W11,6480,2290,1142
W12,6905,2460,1218

Twelve illustrative weeks of session data. Replace with your own before publishing.