I wonder how much of that traffic is from folks who ditched Digg?

andrewljohnson · on Jan 4, 2011

Judging by Quantcast, it's not correlated. Reddit has been steadily growing, and Digg just did a face plant.

mikeryan · on Jan 4, 2011

Reddit has stated that Quantcast and Compete's numbers are pretty much flat wrong for them. You'd have to assume the same for digg.

http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...

slig · on Jan 4, 2011

What about adplanner data?

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...

Seems to be right, as it comes from Analytics.

mikeryan · on Jan 4, 2011

That shows a huge spike in traffic in late August and Sept, right around the launch of the digg redesign, unlike Quantcast and Compete ;-)

jedberg · on Jan 4, 2011

We saw about a 30% increase right after v4 was launched, and about most of those (25% of the 30%, or 83% of the increase) stuck around a week later. It's been basically normal growth since then.

neworbit · on Jan 4, 2011

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en... makes it look like Digg lost about 750,000 daily users over the last year, in the same time Reddit added 500,000.

Obligatory disclaimer, not causation, FSM pirates vs global warming correlation silliness.

Still, instructive to see how quickly you can destroy your own brand and boost a competitor.

maxer · on Jan 4, 2011

I for one venture to reddit more due to what digg has become