Obama spike! Reddit sees 4.4m pageviews, 1.6m uniques in one day thanks to surprise AMA
Source: thenextweb.com - Friday, August 31, 2012
Reddit , the funniest site on the Internet after 9GAG (I kid, I kid) certainly got a lot of attention when U.S. President Barack Obama decided to stop by for an impromptu ‘Ask Me Anything’ (AMA) session on Wednesday. The site also got a lot of incoming traffic thanks to a mountain of media reports and smart use of Team Obama’s social media channels – and of course hordes of existing redditors who are still dizzy from the event . In case you’re keeping track: 24,222 comments and counting. In a separate thread , Reddit moderator karmanaut shared a link to traffic stats highlighting the huge spike that resulted in a bit of downtime for the site. They’re now gunning for Jay-Z , by the way, which could cause 99 other problems. The key takeaways from the shared ObAMA stats: Reddit welcomed 7,1 million unique visitors who accounted for 31.2 million pageviews in August so far (we assume those stats will be updated when the month actually ends). For your comparison, the social news and community website clocked: - 5.6 million uniques and 28.7 million pageviews in July 2012 - 4.8 million uniques and 23 million pageviews in February 2012 (six months ago) - 3.6 million uniques and 17.7 million pageviews in September 2011 On Tuesday the 28th of August, about 556,000 unique visitors came to Reddit, driving 1.27 million pageviews for the day. And that was a rather good day, traffic-wise. On Wednesday the 29th of August, when President Barack ObTranscript: Mitt Romney's Acceptance Speech
