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Slashdot seems twice as popular as HN by Alexa ratings: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org Vs. http://www.al

by lnanek2 12y ago

Slashdot seems twice as popular as HN by Alexa ratings: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org Vs. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/news.ycombinator.com Note that Alexa also shows 35% of inbound search traffic for HN is hacker news, but only 6.5% of slashdot's inbound traffic is from the slashdot term. So comparing the two terms to each other short changes slashdot.

noobermin 12y ago
Intriguing, apparently the majority of people access HN from school!? I thought us students were a minority here. It's also odd that India ranks so highly for slashdot...it's been a running meme there to remind posters not to keep a US only perspective.
- grimmfang 12y ago
  I can see it honestly. A lot of students are beginning to think about startups instead of getting a traditional corporate job. Though, I'm a sophomore right now but I've never met anyone at my school who knows about HN.
  - jychang 12y ago
    Other way around for me. As a CS major at Berkeley, it's hard to find a tech major who isn't thinking about going into startups, unless they're going into Finance. Unless you're talking about a sophomore in high school, but for some high schools HN is still fairly well known. I'm definitely in a minority sample here, though, considering that a significant amount of people in my high school friend group dropped out of college to do startups, are Thiel fellows, are working at various tech companies in college, etc.
- maxerickson 12y ago
  You have to start worrying about the quality of Alexa's data. I wouldn't expect it to be outstanding for either site.
kevin_p 12y ago
Makes sense. The URL for Hacker News isn't related to the name, so it's harder to remember. A large proportion of searches will be people who know where they want to go but can't remember the address. This group basically doesn't exist for Slashdot, so the proportion of searches for each site's name will overstate HN's popularity (although the growth trends are still relevant)
- giancarlostoro 12y ago
  I always just type hackerne.ws into my browser but I see your point.

by lnanek2 12y ago

noobermin 12y ago

Intriguing, apparently the majority of people access HN from school!? I thought us students were a minority here. It's also odd that India ranks so highly for slashdot...it's been a running meme there to remind posters not to keep a US only perspective.

grimmfang 12y ago
I can see it honestly. A lot of students are beginning to think about startups instead of getting a traditional corporate job. Though, I'm a sophomore right now but I've never met anyone at my school who knows about HN.
- jychang 12y ago
  Other way around for me. As a CS major at Berkeley, it's hard to find a tech major who isn't thinking about going into startups, unless they're going into Finance. Unless you're talking about a sophomore in high school, but for some high schools HN is still fairly well known. I'm definitely in a minority sample here, though, considering that a significant amount of people in my high school friend group dropped out of college to do startups, are Thiel fellows, are working at various tech companies in college, etc.
maxerickson 12y ago
You have to start worrying about the quality of Alexa's data. I wouldn't expect it to be outstanding for either site.

kevin_p 12y ago

Makes sense. The URL for Hacker News isn't related to the name, so it's harder to remember. A large proportion of searches will be people who know where they want to go but can't remember the address. This group basically doesn't exist for Slashdot, so the proportion of searches for each site's name will overstate HN's popularity (although the growth trends are still relevant)

giancarlostoro 12y ago
I always just type hackerne.ws into my browser but I see your point.