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frecency

noun
/ˈfɹiːsənsi/

Etymology

Blend of frequency + recency, coined for the development of Mozilla Firefox.

  1. borrowed from recēns
  2. suffixed as recency — “recent + cy”
  3. compounded as frecency — “frequency + recency”

Definitions

  1. Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically…

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

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for frecency. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA