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August 4th, 2006 · No Comments

More Stats on Del.icio.us, This Time Positive: “

This is an update on the post I wrote about del.icio.us earlier today that showed massively decreasing traffic on the site according to Comscore, and flat traffic from Alexa.

I
spoke with del.icio.us founder Joshua Schacter this afternoon as well
as Eckart Walther, VP Product for Search (Joshuaís boss) and Melissa
Rische, PR Manager for Yahoo Search. They gave me some internal Yahoo
numbers for del.icio.us to counter the comscore figures. I also
obtained a somewhat useful Hitwise chart on del.icio.us traffic
independently which is below as well.

Del.icio.us says that
Comscore is ìdeeply flawedî in measuring del.icio.us and says ìthe
actual stats are hugely up across the boardî. Specifically, they say:

Page views, usage and new registrations have been increasing at least 10% month over month this year
Del.icio.us is at all time highs with daily registrations, daily posts and active monthly unique


Corrrected better news about delicious.

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