berk.typepad.com — Slashdot's traffic has surged recently, coinciding directly with Digg's explosion. Could Digg's press around user-generated content be driving Slashdot's growth (and stock price)? Cool Alexa URL hack shows Slashdot traffic data over five years with Digg over the last year. Without Slashdot's recent surge, Digg would already have overtaken it.
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loopbizFeb 22, 2006
So there I was, comparing my newsblaze.com to the fresnobee.com and thinking what a great job I was doing, after just 12 months and then I compared newsblaze.com to digg and slashdot and it looks like I've got a long way to go!
loopbizFeb 22, 2006
Could it be that there were a lot of people who had never been to slashdot (maybe a younger crowd) and after seeing a few stories here about slashdot, went over there to see what it was about and decided it was interesting enough to stay?
mythrlFeb 22, 2006
It doesn't make sense though looking at the numbers. Look at the beggining of the huge spike shortly before 2006. Slashdot traffic is at about 1500 and Digg traffic is at about 500. Going up the spike till it peaks, Slashdot goes up to about 5500 and Digg goes up to about 2000. That means the Digg spike shows an increase of about 1500 whereas the slashdot spike increases by about 4000. If Digg was responsible the slashdot traffic should increase at most by 1500 and not 4000. Even if all that increased Digg traffic meant increased traffic for slashdot, slashdot is still had an increase of about 2500 from sources other than Digg.
Closed AccountFeb 22, 2006
Slashdot has stocks?
kberkMar 15, 2006Submitter
Slashdot (and Sourceforge) is owned by VA Software. VA trades under the ticker LNUX