Presumably that's how many users they had 2 weeks ago, as indicated by the giant "Recent" indicator and the dates? You can always switch to "All Data".

1.) Not sure how that relates to the non-0 y-axis

2.) Switching to "All Data" also doesn't set the y-axis to zero, but to 6,840.

Having an y-axis set not to zero is in the majority a sign of people who want to inflate growth.

They launched those live stats in 2023[[1](https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/history.html)], it shows all data since they built the logger.

Not zero indexing is misleading if you are comparing discrete things like GPU performance, not in the case of plotting a timeline graph. Their published stats could be seen as misleading if they only displayed a short and/or a specific timeline (excluding the latest data for example).

Or people who didn’t care about growth at all, only to start measuring it at 6840 customers. Hint: It is the latter :)

Hint: This has nothing to do with a zero y-axis, why would one need to have a zero value to have the y-axis start at zero?

The reason to have a non-zero y-axis for time series is to amplify changes, e.g. the changes might be to small to see with a zeroed y-axis. Or you have ups and downs and want to compare them, with a zeroed y-axis again the changes might be too small to compare.

Whenever you want to show growth, a non-zero y-axis is usually a sign that the aim is to overstate growth, because we as humans estimate growth by the steepness of the graph, not by the numbers. A non-zero y-axis creates a much steeper graph and thus growth is perceived much higher than it is.

The button right underneath toggles between “Recent” and “All Data”.