The most popular Digg users & domains
Thursday, 10 April 2008
Using data from SocialBlade.com, I thought I'd have a quick look at the stories that have made the Digg front page and see which sites are getting the most exposure from Digg.com. The data only goes back to Feb 18th but includes the last 5000 front page stories. Before analysis we thought youtube.com would be the top dugg domain, and that proved right with 217 frontpage stories. The UK is also well represented with three sites in the top 10 - the BBC, the DailyMail and the Telegraph newspaper.
| Domain www.youtube.com |
Front pages 217 |
| arstechnica.com | 103 |
| www.nytimes.com | 93 |
| news.bbc.co.uk | 87 |
| www.huffingtonpost.com | 85 |
| gizmodo.com | 79 |
| www.dailymail.co.uk | 77 |
| www.cnn.com | 69 |
| www.msnbc.msn.com | 66 |
| www.telegraph.co.uk | 60 |
| news.yahoo.com | 58 |
| www.engadget.com | 55 |
| torrentfreak.com | 54 |
| www.flickr.com | 49 |
| kotaku.com | 47 |
| www.cracked.com | 46 |
| www.reuters.com | 45 |
| apod.nasa.gov | 44 |
| rawstory.com | 42 |
| online.wsj.com | 37 |
| www.guardian.co.uk | 33 |
| www.washingtonpost.com | 33 |
| blog.wired.com | 31 |
| www.wired.com | 30 |
| www.dailykos.com | 29 |
We also see who has got the most front pages in this time period - no surprises here with Mr.BabyMan top, getting 4% front page coverage. Obviously not going to mention where we came in list ;-) The other top users are:
| Rank | Username | Frontpages | Percentage |
| 1 | MrBabyMan | 209 | 4.18% |
| 2 | MakiMaki | 164 | 3.28% |
| 3 | msaleem | 97 | 1.94% |
| 4 | TalSiach | 83 | 1.66% |
| 5 | pizzler | 77 | 1.54% |
| 6 | hdar3415 | 65 | 1.30% |
| 7 | zaibatsu | 64 | 1.28% |
| 8 | cosmikdebris | 59 | 1.18% |
| 9 | FameMoney | 56 | 1.12% |
| 10 | maheshee11 | 54 | 1.08% |
| 11 | mklopez | 53 | 1.06% |
| 12 | adrian67 | 51 | 1.02% |
| 13 | skored | 48 | 0.96% |
| 14 | badwithcomputer | 47 | 0.94% |
| 15 | chris1234 | 46 | 0.92% |
| 16 | bamafun | 45 | 0.90% |
| 17 | putergirl | 42 | 0.84% |
| 18 | Bukowsky | 40 | 0.80% |
| 19 | supernova17 | 40 | 0.80% |
| 20 | suxmonkey | 40 | 0.80% |
Finally, what have people been most interested in? Here we show the most popular categories:
| Category | DIGGs |
| 2008_us_elections | 383 |
| tech_news | 316 |
| odd_stuff | 295 |
| general_sciences | 285 |
| world_news | 259 |
| comedy | 256 |
| people | 193 |
| space | 188 |
| politics | 183 |
| environment | 179 |
| movies | 179 |
| health | 160 |
| apple | 145 |
| business_finance | 144 |
| gaming_news | 132 |
| arts_culture | 109 |
| linux_unix | 109 |
| pets_animals | 102 |
| design | 94 |
| educational | 84 |
| travel_places | 84 |
| gadgets | 82 |
| music | 80 |
| software | 75 |
| political_opinion | 67 |
| television | 65 |
| nintendo | 64 |
| hardware | 60 |
| comics_animation | 59 |
| celebrity | 58 |
| xbox | 51 |
| autos | 45 |
| basketball | 45 |
| pc_games | 43 |
| playstation | 43 |
| microsoft | 42 |
| food_drink | 40 |
| other_sports | 37 |
| baseball | 36 |
| security | 34 |
| playable_web_games | 16 |
| football | 15 |
| programming | 14 |
| extreme_sports | 13 |
| golf | 9 |
| mods | 9 |
| motorsport | 6 |
| hockey | 5 |
| tennis | 4 |
| soccer | 3 |
Any other data you would like to see? Leave a comment and I'll run a quick query - one query I can think of is what words appear most in Frontpage stories? - for instance "Digg" appears 57 times, "Facebook" 20 times, "Obama" 81 times, and "Clinton" 72 times.
I'll follow up with some pretty graphs soon, all the data is available as well if anyone needs it just ask.
Posted by: MarkeD | Thursday, 10 April 2008 at 01:21 PM
MarkeD. You could actually take this a little further and use it as a method for estimating the value of a good DIGG strategy. For instance if we assume, based on experience that an average DIGG homepage presence could result in between 1000-6000 visitors (3000) for the sake of estimating then since February the 18th DIGG may have been worth the following in terms of visitor numbers to these sites:
Domain Estimated Visitors?
www.youtube.com 651000
arstechnica.com 309000
www.nytimes.com 279000
news.bbc.co.uk 261000
www.huffingtonpost.com 255000
gizmodo.com 237000
www.dailymail.co.uk 231000
www.cnn.com 207000
www.msnbc.msn.com 198000
www.telegraph.co.uk 180000
news.yahoo.com 174000
www.engadget.com 165000
torrentfreak.com 162000
www.flickr.com 147000
kotaku.com 141000
www.cracked.com 138000
www.reuters.com 135000
apod.nasa.gov 132000
rawstory.com 126000
online.wsj.com 111000
www.guardian.co.uk 99000
www.washingtonpost.com 99000
blog.wired.com 93000
www.wired.com 90000
www.dailykos.com 87000
As a lot of them generate revenue from CPM adserving deals it's not hard to factor in average page views per visitor and CPM costs to assign approximate $ or £ values :-)
Posted by: Teddie | Thursday, 10 April 2008 at 09:26 PM
Amazing stats. This tempts me to make new post and look forward to be on the home page of Digg for atleast one day. I am going for it.
Posted by: Free Trade Leads | Friday, 11 April 2008 at 06:14 AM
Just so you guys know, as I've seen several Google Analytics stats after several dozens of homepages on different domains, an average digg homepage will bring 20 000 up to 100 000 visitors within 36hours, and a few hundred a week after.
Those numbers are very very underestimated!
Posted by: Guillaume | Sunday, 13 April 2008 at 05:00 PM
Guillaume, it's purely an estimate of the average number of visitors based on stats I have seen, and is an example of how one could use the data to calculate a value. MarkeD's also talking about stories that made it to the frontpage, and not all frontpage stories go on to be 'Top in' stories, many dissapear quite quickly.
Posted by: Teddie | Monday, 14 April 2008 at 10:37 AM
Only five comments here so far, yet 189 Diggs? Wow.
Interesting article, thanks.
Cheers - @liamvickery
Posted by: Liam Vickery | Friday, 06 February 2009 at 10:45 AM
As a lot of them generate revenue from CPM adserving deals it's not hard to factor in average page views per visitor and CPM costs to assign approximate $ or £ values :-)
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It's purely an estimate of the average number of visitors based on stats I have seen, and is an example of how one could use the data to calculate a value.Cheers
Posted by: Photo Mugs | Tuesday, 06 July 2010 at 05:16 PM
The data only goes back to Feb 18th but includes the last 5000 front page stories. Before analysis we thought youtube.com would be the top dugg domain, and that proved right with 217 frontpage stories.
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The data only goes back to Feb 18th but includes the last 5000 front page stories. Before analysis we thought youtube.com would be the top dugg domain, and that proved right with 217 frontpage stories.Thanks
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Well...The data only goes back to Feb 18th but includes the last 5000 front page stories. Before analysis we thought youtube.com would be the top dugg domain, and that proved right with 217 frontpage stories.CHEERS
Posted by: Education | Sunday, 25 July 2010 at 08:35 PM
Thats a lot of frontpages for those people are they paid to post articles or are they just that good at hunting down cool stuff?
Posted by: wayne | Thursday, 29 July 2010 at 10:50 AM
Guillaume, it's purely an estimate of the average number of visitors based on stats I have seen, and is an example of how one could use the data to calculate a value. MarkeD's also talking about stories that made it to the frontpage
Posted by: Coffee | Sunday, 01 August 2010 at 04:01 PM
The data only goes back to Feb 18th but includes the last 5000 front page stories. Before analysis we thought youtube.com would be the top dugg domain, and that proved right with 217 frontpage stories.Thanks
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The UK is also well represented with three sites in the top 10 - the BBC, the DailyMail and the Telegraph newspaper.
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The data only goes back to Feb 18th but includes the last 5000 front page stories. Before analysis we thought youtube.com would be the top dugg domain, and that proved right with 217 frontpage stories.Thanks
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Digg used to be the king of social bookmarking sites some years ago. The system was really democratic, and any website, albeit small or new, had a chance of making it to the front page. Sure, there were many people trying to game the system, but the mass of users made a good job filtering what was good content and what was not.
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After some time people also started suspecting that Digg went on to use editors who would manually decide what stories were allowed to hit the front page, and what stories were not.
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Rose criticized the DiggBar's user experience as "inconsistent" and "wonky," and called the feature "bad for the Internet." According to Rose, the company will instead choose to focus on its browser extensions, which offer many of the same features that could be found in the DiggBar. Rose said Digg will overhaul these add-ons in a few months.
Along with the removal of the DiggBar, Digg plans to un-ban all domains that have been banned in the past. This could open up the site to a lot of junk, but Rose said that a set of "automated filters" will catch items that violate the site's terms of service.
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There's more user unrest in the community of popular social news site Digg, after the all-time number 3 ranked user Zaibatsu, a.k.a. Reg Saddler, was banned for alleged multiple violations of the Digg Terms of Use. That decision is "final and irreversible", according to an email Saddler got from Digg today. JD Rucker of Social News Watch interviewed Saddler to discuss the ban - we have the exclusive audio below.
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We sought a response from Digg on the banning, since Zaibatsu was a high ranking user who had seemingly put in a lot of effort and work into the community.
Digg's Sr. Director of Marketing & Communications, Beth Murphy, responded that "this user has been banned for multiple violations of the Digg Terms of Use over period of time and not just a single incidence."
So Digg's position is clearly that Zaibatsu has a history of TOS violations, not just the latest one.
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InvespBlog has published what it claims is an interview with a top Digg user – someone who has a 34% success ratio in getting submitted stories to the home page of Digg. The Digg user isn’t named – he or she says “I have a reputation to withhold” (we know what they meant).
In the interview the user talks a little about how he’s able to get stories to the home page of the Digg news site and drive significant traffic back to the destination, despite the increasing popularity of the site. There isn’t much that will surprise people, the user simply does a lot of networking and reciprocal voting with other top users.
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