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
I'm only hopping on reddit momentarily if I'm looking for specific information. For my casual browsing, I've largely transitioned over to here, and I'm enjoying myself immensely.
I'm not surprised it's a huge drop, but there's a vindictive part of me that wants the bleeding to continue.
July is the real indicator with API being turned off on June 30th. I don't think the protests themselves had a big enough drop off, but I have to assume a lot of folks have either left or use only desktop currently once that happened.
Does this account for traffic generated through official/unofficial apps?
Looks like no, it's desktop only:
reddit.com's traffic has decreased by 3.36% compared to last month (Desktop).
Interesting to note that if you scroll down further you'll see that the #1 content referral to reddit is adult content at 20.6%, with second place being video games at 16.3%. A solid one fifth of the other sites pointing at reddit do so for porn, basically.
July will be more interesting to see since the third party apps didn’t die until June 30th.
If it remains a one-off, it won't make much of a difference. If it becomes a trend, spez is toast.
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