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Reddit Joins Billion Page-Views Per Month Club

  • Mashable, Thursday, February 3, 2011 12:25 PM
Condé Nast-owned social media service Reddit just broke the billion monthly page-view barrier. "That's up 300% from a year ago and a 20% increase from just last month," according to Mashable. To be exact, Reddit racked up 1,000,404,480 page-views last month. All those page-views, meanwhile, were generated from just 13.75 million absolute unique visitors, which accounted for a total of 68.11 million visits.

"A big reason why Reddit can generate so many pageviews from so few people is that the average person checks out 14.7 pages per visit and stays on the site on average for 15 minutes and 40 seconds," Mashable notes. What's driving Reddit's strong growth? For one, the dramatic decline of rival Digg, which has been hemorrhaging users since its latest redesign. 

 


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