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 →
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 →