Anyone can check themselves, gawker's quantcast stats are publicly visible, in fact its the example url quantcast gives so you can just click it. Go here: http

Anyone can check themselves, gawker's quantcast stats are publicly visible, in fact its the example url quantcast gives so you can just click it. Go here: http://www.quantcast.com/ http://www.quantcast.com/ click the gawker url click the 'gawker media network' parent organization chose 'impressions' from the pulldown click 'week' voila, the exact numbers he's quoted. As much as the general perceived reaction to the gawker redesign has been screechingly negative, the actual traffic impact was modest. Denton claims this was a deliberate one step back two steps forward kind of thing and traffic will return in a couple quarters.