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