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> I suspect that the vast majority of Redditors use Ad-block or equivalent. I seriously doubt that.

mahmud 16y ago
I had a site of mine reddited; Google Analytics reported 74 uniques, Apache/AwStats reported 900+ uniques. Draw your own conclusions.
- mootothemax 16y ago
  There are a lot of robots out there...
- aw3c2 16y ago
  With so "few" visitors it would be worth manually going through the logs and see if your interpretation is valid.
  - mahmud 16y ago
    Look, I didn't want to be blunt for obvious reasons, but now that you ask, I will give you a hint. The reddit crowd is not exactly advertising friendly. What we got was direct human traffic, and 92% of them were blocking javascript. The only bots we saw were the first 10 hits, most of them familiar from our twitter links; shave 2% for the bots, that still leaves you with 90% of the traffic that's worthless. The reddit staff are aware of this; why else would they thank you for not using a NoScript or ad-block whenever you visit the site with js enabled?
axod 16y ago
Even in the post they once again pander to the privacy freak out crowd by noting that google analytics include some js. Someone commented that it was nice that they mentioned this, and the author responded with "We know our customers well!" Sorry but that's ridiculous. Reddit is hard to monetize because it's full of anti consumerist adblock js-blocking privacy freaks.... And they seem to be encouraging it in their users.
- robryan 16y ago
  Apart from the hardcore privacy crowd you would think they best way to advertise to these people is through text based targeted advertising. You have a mountain of comment data their to run algorithms across to decide which ads are most effective for each user.
  - axod 16y ago
    That'd work well. As long as you make it seem like they aren't adverts. Some people just hate ads and will not click on them, even if they're the most useful tailored special offer you can imagine.

I had a site of mine reddited; Google Analytics reported 74 uniques, Apache/AwStats reported 900+ uniques. Draw your own conclusions.

mootothemax 16y ago
There are a lot of robots out there...
aw3c2 16y ago
With so "few" visitors it would be worth manually going through the logs and see if your interpretation is valid.
- mahmud 16y ago
  Look, I didn't want to be blunt for obvious reasons, but now that you ask, I will give you a hint. The reddit crowd is not exactly advertising friendly. What we got was direct human traffic, and 92% of them were blocking javascript. The only bots we saw were the first 10 hits, most of them familiar from our twitter links; shave 2% for the bots, that still leaves you with 90% of the traffic that's worthless. The reddit staff are aware of this; why else would they thank you for not using a NoScript or ad-block whenever you visit the site with js enabled?

axod 16y ago

Even in the post they once again pander to the privacy freak out crowd by noting that google analytics include some js. Someone commented that it was nice that they mentioned this, and the author responded with "We know our customers well!" Sorry but that's ridiculous. Reddit is hard to monetize because it's full of anti consumerist adblock js-blocking privacy freaks.... And they seem to be encouraging it in their users.

robryan 16y ago
Apart from the hardcore privacy crowd you would think they best way to advertise to these people is through text based targeted advertising. You have a mountain of comment data their to run algorithms across to decide which ads are most effective for each user.
- axod 16y ago
  That'd work well. As long as you make it seem like they aren't adverts. Some people just hate ads and will not click on them, even if they're the most useful tailored special offer you can imagine.