{"id":115,"date":"2007-11-21T13:44:48","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T17:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/21\/ows-analysis-digg-vs-stumbleupon-vs-reddit\/"},"modified":"2007-11-21T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T17:48:32","slug":"ows-analysis-digg-vs-stumbleupon-vs-reddit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/21\/ows-analysis-digg-vs-stumbleupon-vs-reddit\/","title":{"rendered":"OWS Analysis: Digg vs. Stumbleupon vs. Reddit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I added some new features to <a href=\"http:\/\/obsessive.sourceforge.net\">OWS<\/a>, which allow you to filter any results manually by any field you want (you have to enable obsessively excessive options). I then applied this to my recent traffic and found these interesting (though, not entirely surprising) results:<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ows_sum.png\" title=\"ows_sum.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ows_sum.png\" alt=\"ows_sum.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stumbleupon:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ows_stumble.png\" title=\"ows_stumble.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ows_stumble.png\" alt=\"ows_stumble.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digg:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ows_digg.png\" title=\"ows_digg.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ows_digg.png\" alt=\"ows_digg.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reddit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ows_reddit.png\" title=\"ows_reddit.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ows_reddit.png\" alt=\"ows_reddit.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, Digg and Reddit have almost no tail traffic, with only a really huge burst and then it dies out. Reddit has a lot smaller tail though. Stumbleupon however, doesn&#8217;t really have much of a burst, but provides a really long tail of traffic, which ends up superceding (over time) the amount of traffic from Digg or Reddit.<\/p>\n<p>So whats the lesson  here?<\/p>\n<p>Because of its nature, I think Stumbleupon will continue to keep providing high-quality traffic for awhile. Not only that, but it also provides repeat visitors too. It should definitely be on your radar when advertising through social bookmarking sites, even though its often ignored.<\/p>\n<p>While traffic is good, traffic from the right places is even better, and can provide more traffic over time. I&#8217;ll have to put a stumbleupon button on my blog posts here&#8230; hehe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I added some new features to OWS, which allow you to filter any results manually by any field you want (you have to enable obsessively excessive options). I then applied this to my recent traffic and found these interesting (though, not entirely surprising) results: Summary: Stumbleupon: Digg: Reddit: Not surprisingly, Digg and Reddit have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virtualroadside.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}