Meaning of frecency | Babel Free

Definitions

Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically used to predict page revisits in a web browser.

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“For example, a feature called "frecency" compiles the user's browing^([sic]) history to suggest⟳ similar websites and searches.”

“[…] the AwesomeBar will match⟳ what you’re typing (even multiple words!) against the URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted by “frecency” (an algorithm combining frequency + recency).”

“So the more often and the more recently you’ve been there, the higher “frecency” it has and the higher it’s rated.”

“[…] or improve⟳ our cache performance so that we're keeping cached items that are related to sites with high frecency -- […]”

“No, Tb [Thunderbird] has yet to develope^([sic]) the Fx [Firefox] frecency thing. It's just simple pattern matching, IIUC.”

“Regarding collection usage, frecency metrics are employed, combining frequency and recency, to effectively capture⟳ concept drift and temporal trends.”

CEFR level