According to StatCounter’s GlobalStats research arm, Facebook generates 48% of all worldwide traffic from social media sites, followed by StumbleUpon (25%) and Twitter (10%). Facebook passed StumbleUpon in July 2009. Its share peaked in December of 2009 at 74%. In North America, however, StumbleUpon recaptured the lead in share of social media traffic with 40%, while Facebook [...] Read →
Royal Pingdom has used Google Adplanner U.S. data for 19 different social network sites, and analyzed the data for age demographics. The analysis showed that the average social network user is 37 years old. LinkedIn has the highest average user age of 44, while Bebo has the youngest, 28. The majority of 64% of Twitter users and [...] Read →
Silicon Alley Insider’s Chart of the Week, created by pingdom.com and based on data from Google Ad Planner, shows that the average Facebook user views 662 pages a month. Next-most-sticky is Hi5, with an average of 351 pages a month, followed by MySpace, at 261 views per visitor per month. Read →
Research by Royal Pingdom confirms the trend. It shows that most of the networks that could be considered to be ’social’ in the real sense of the word – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Bebo have a user base that’s 50%+ female. Networks that are arguably much more functional in the sense that you save or [...] Read →