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Compete Blog
blog.compete.com · Company blog · on HN since 2007
The Compete Blog published web traffic analysis on social networks, search engines, and popular sites in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
What HN saysHN commenters cite its traffic data when discussing Tumblr and Pinterest usage, Bing's user base, and social network rankings.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Top Social Networks: The Summer of Social?2 people · 1 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 2Myspace acquires Photobucket for $300 Million1 people · 34 points · first shared 2012 · 10 comments on HN
- 3Instagram vs. Picplz – The Tale of Two Photo Apps1 people · 6 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Internet Allstars '01: What happened to the most popular sites of 2001?1 people · 5 points · first shared 2007 · 2 comments on HN
- 5Amazon Prime Squeezes Already Struggling Rivals1 people · 3 points · first shared 2009 · discussion on HN
- 6Social Addicts: How do Hardcore Facebook, MySpace and Twitter users differ?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 7Google Social is Exploding Online1 people · 3 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 8"Tom is Not My Friend" - How long does it take MySpace users to unfriend Myspace founders1 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · 1 comments on HN
- 9Digg overtakes Facebook; Both cross 20 million U.S. Unique Visitors [2007]1 people · 3 points · first shared 2007 · 2 comments on HN
- 10Sink or Swim? The Top Moving Sites Of 20071 people · 3 points · first shared 2008 · 1 comments on HN
- 11I’m the mayor. So what?1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · 2 comments on HN
- 12Hummer Shutdown - What Will Arnold Drive Now?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2008 · discussion on HN
- 13GigaOm vs TechCrunch: Are GigaOm readers any different from TechCrunch?1 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 14Compete Blog: The Torso of the Internet - 1,718 sites are attracting over 1 million visitors1 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
- 15Franchise deals, not viral growth, helped StubHub compete against Ticketmaster (then they got bought by eBay).1 people · 2 points · first shared 2007 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
victordg · 2013-01-09
Usage of Tumblr looks surprisingly high (at least for me), according to that graph. Even though that stats are exclusively for the younger segment of users, they don't seem to correlate at all with overall data I've been able to gather. For example:
- Facebook's unique visitors ~160M http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/21/net-us-facebook-users-idUSBR…
- Tumblr unique visitors ~24M http://blog.compete.com/2012/10/10/pinterest-surpasses-tumblr-in-uniqu…
GBKS · 2012-02-02
Compete has some details here http://blog.compete.com/2012/01/05/affiliates-pining-for-pinterest/
Pinterest uses Skimlinks to turn all links to retail sites into affiliate links (and in turn they get affiliate money). From the article it looks like this is a good amount of traffic.
mdwrigh2 · 2012-01-17
> With this "message" on their homepage (which as jaysonelliot pointed out is not even seen by many people)
How is 64% of their traffic (89 million visitors in 2009)[1] not "many people"?
[1]: http://blog.compete.com/2009/04/21/home-page-visitors-top-publisher-si…
mredbord · 2011-04-10
I'm not completely convinced that Bing lacks the user base to compete with Google. There are diminishing returns in user base volume after some point, and Bing has around 100mm US users[1]. I think any of us would be pleased as punch with that volume and it's not clear it's not enough to do something-social-with-search.
[1] http://blog.compete.com/2011/03/16/february-2011-search-market-share-r…
donna · 2007-07-27
Did you see this research:
Top Social Networks: The Summer of Social?
http://blog.compete.com/2007/07/24/top-social-networks-june-myspace-fa…
ed · 2007-04-28
Better to use the permalink:
http://blog.compete.com/2007/04/23/myspace-tom-is-not-my-friend/