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# The dotted line in graphs

### What does the dotted line mean?

Once you start tracking a profile, we start collecting data on a daily basis.

But the service also collected some data for the previous year. So when you check a profile, you get quite a lot of stats. In case we haven’t been able to collect data on one of the days, that gap in information will be displayed as a dotted line. Any follower growth during this period of time will be calculated by dividing the value by the number of days in the gap period.

_For example, you started tracking a profile on January 18. We didn’t collect any data on January 7 (before you started tracking the profile), so the graph will look like this:_


![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/8da58b676c829000/file-ey5wqoz8zl_30enrh.png)

_Here, January 7 is shown as a dotted line. The difference between January 8 and January 6 is -5436 followers. So we put down the value  -2718 as followers growth for January 7 and January 8._