How come transaction rate is not very correlated with fees on Bitcoin?

How come transaction rate is not very correlated with fees on Bitcoin?

Transaction fees are the line at the bottom, transaction rate is displayed above. I don't understand why the fees seem to randomly spike without the transaction rate increasing. For example, fees in 2021 reached $60 while there was a relatively low number of transactions per day (similar to 2017 levels). Also, fees were very low ( submitted by

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