cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1094374

SimilarWeb has just released traffic estimates for June. According to these estimates, Reddit’s traffic has seen a 3.36% month-over-month decrease.

For comparison, here’s how traffic has changed for other popular social networking websites:

Source: https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#overview

  • Gullible@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    In case you’re actually curious, a bizarrely large amount. Around 4 years ago, the admins ceased banning spammers that created their own private spam subreddits, which allowed spam to proliferate and additionally made the site metrics go crazy. Spam in subreddits no one visits amounts to about 40 percent of all (posts or comments, can’t remember which) on the website. The admins delisted those subreddits from the ‘go to random subreddit’ button, so they’re acutely aware of them. If you’d like to learn more, ask some former admins.

    • randomname01English
      1·
      1 year ago

      While that’s legitimately interesting (I’d never heard of it!), it doesn’t seem like it’ll affect this metric too much. A comment further down explains how they get these numbers, and as far as I could tell delisted bot subs aren’t really captured as part of their dataset.