“According to data provided to Engadget by internet analytics firm Similarweb, the impact was small but noticeable. On the day before the blackout began on June 12th, Similarweb logged more than 57 million daily visits to Reddit across desktop and mobile web clients. By the end of the first day of the protest, daily visits were below 55 million. Then, at the end of June 13th, Similarweb recorded fewer than 52 million daily visits to Reddit. Compared to the website’s average daily volume over the past month, the 52,121,649 visits Reddit saw on June 13th represented a 6.6 percent drop.
Over that same time period, Similarweb recorded a more dramatic decrease in the amount of time Reddit users were spending on the platform. The day before the protest began, an average session on the website was about eight minutes and 31 seconds long. A day later, that metric fell to seven minutes and 17 seconds, or the lowest that stat has been in the past three years. Reddit did not immediately respond to Engadget’s comment request.”
Guess that’s why spez was on such a media blitz the last few days.
Haha an average session on the website was about eight and a half minutes. Must be alot of folks that come to see one post and leave to average out those of us that are terminally online.
Yes. Average users = people shitting. Power users = office workers avoiding work. So mote it be.
Reddit will continue to highlight Weekly/Monthly Average Users to the press and advertisers, since those metrics won’t take much of a hit. You visit the site once to vote in a poll in favor of continuing the blackouts, you’ll get counted in those.
Those more granular metrics like session length and especially Total Posts Viewed are what really matter when you’re trying to run ads, and it’s hard to imagine a world in which those did not take a huge hit when most of the major subreddits are either blacked out, or (even better) flooding the front page with repetitive pictures of John Oliver.
Advertisers only care about the conversion of engagement to actual purchases.
They already said that with the blackout they couldn’t push specific advertisement into specific subs.
Just highlighting weekly/monthly users is not gonna work in the long run.
If those only engage to what is up on the front page or engage for just a second of 5 then it defeats the point of targeted ads.
My reddit average daily traffic dropped 100% 😀
I mean I had to check out the sexy John Oliver pics but I did unsubscribe from everything so my front page was empty.
and I assume I’ll be back before the 30th to deface my posts
I’m all over the place with that, (deleting/changing posts). I’ll likely close my 12yo account but not sure where I’ll land on the old comments
I landed on https://shreddit.com because I decided they’ve had enough of my attention. being petty would be nice but just deleting 11 years of content feels nicer.
Hopefully there’s another wave of power users moving to Lemmy/Kbin after the 30th.
For me it’s simple: no sync, no reddit.
I’m never going to use their app.
Too bad we don’t get userids so we could boast about our low-digit uid for extra cred, like back in the Slashdot days (low 5-digit Slashdot user here :p)
Of course, if you wanted a name that was always taken you could just join another federated site. For example, you’re FloridaMan@kbin.social but there could also be a FloridaMan@lemmy.world, etc.
rif for me. but yeah especially after finding out there was a profit sharing agreement in place that spaz cancelled.
It’s a good bet. Breaking habits is hard, but removing some people’s preferred way of using Reddit forces them to go cold turkey. It’s a great opportunity for all the alternatives.
Yes Obviously its working hence why the admins are now so Aggressive in demoding mods and forcing subs open.