Digg Effect — 2635 of Diggs, 85k of unique visitors and 130k of pageviews

The Digg Effect, as seen in Google Analytics

Five days ago my post about Ubuntu girl was dugg, few folks requested some report, so there it is. The picture above my writings shows a chart of traffic that was brought by submission upvoted 2635 times. Ubuntu girl was one of the most popular stories on Digg service for that day, I guess perceptive analysis might be quite interesting.

• 83,790 unique visits (according to Google Analytics, WP Stats were comparable)
• 128,058 pageviews (readers were also interested in other stories, this is nice)
• 71.94% of visitors were Firefox users (Digg users do use modern browsers, only 14 percents of Internet Errorer)
• 70.68% of visitors were Windows users (read: the message archived its own goal)

Also the post about Ubuntu Girl received 148 blog reactions (according to Technorati) and batch of links from forums, message boards and other more or less social websites (Spanish, French, German, Italian… Wait, there’re even Arabian and Chinese ones!).

Comments (used to be turned on, now they are disabled):

Jon Holato at August 20th, 2007

Congrats on hitting the Digg front page, I’ve yet to make it there.

Reddit is a great site too, just a much different scope overall. I’ve been on the Reddit home page four times, and 3 of the 4 were politically-oriented, which is the base of Reddit. (Avg 5-8k users I’d say.)

Stumble Upon is good too, however the volume is significantly less than Reddit and especially Digg.

In a nutshell: Reddit = educated and civilized, Digg = uneducated and uncivilized.

Well. As it turned out, Jon did what he wanted to. His post about Polish pop singer made it to Digg and Reddit front pages, all at once.