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Reddit's Traffic Fell 6.6% During 48HR Blackout
- behnamoh 3y agoSo not much? Business as usual. As always, the rest of the internet just follows along. Only a few mods got replaced. And the company's IPO will still be profitable...
- missedthecue 3y agoIf someone were to have me blindly guess, I would have said that 6.6% was within normal daily variance.
- polka_haunts_us 3y agoYeah, the article is comparing the blackout, which started on a Monday, to the traffic a previous day, a Sunday. I don't have any deep insight into social media traffic, but 6.6% Day to Day with no other context of what a normal usage pattern might be is worth very little. The average time on site being the lowest its been in 3 years is more damning, although easily explained by the pattern of "I go to my favorite sub, oh it's set to private, ok going somewhere else", not to mention broken google results.
- agilob 3y agoI guess people were visiting reddit to see who isn't protesting?
- uLogMicheal 3y agoYou have to go to reddit to get the news about what is happening to reddit.
- pyeri 3y agoOnly 6.6%? That's highly unbelievable I think. Subs like programming, technology, python, etc. that went dark are like reddit's "bread-butter" when it comes to getting eyeballs from google. Their impact must be higher than that.
- raverbashing 3y agoTraffic How much was the drop of new topics, comments, etc? The stuff that actually creates the traffic?
- NBJack 3y agoNow I wonder how much of their traffic isn't human. If only out of muscle memory, when I visited during the blackout period, there was little content of interest left.
- yuppie_scum 3y agoThere’s a loud 6.6% who are way too invested in Reddit. 95% of Reddit is someone posting a crappy picture of or making some unclever observation about their watch/car/knife/whatever. I can live without this content. Frankly I think the quality of content (which was always hit or miss on Reddit) has improved since Monday.