facebook traffic climbs dramatically
The growth rates of non-college networks must have dramatically risen, since alexa notes that FB unique vistors have grown from 0.6% of the internet population to 1.3% in the first 3 months of this year, lifting facebook into the top 20 global sites.
Dustin, as usual more humorous and witty than humble, notes that at present growth rates FB will have every internet user registered around 2010. To get these numbers of off Alexa’s current 1.3% reach, Dustin must be seeing is an amazing rate of around 15% growth/month. That would project to something like 60M at end 2007, with a doubling period of 5 months, 6 doubling periods and 30 months later would see 4B around the middle 2010.
Amazing what compounded growth off of a large base can theoretically achieve.
At this moment, according to alexa, yahoo.com servers 6% of all internet traffic, google around 2%, and facebook 0.8%. Amazing for a site that is around 3 years old. Fast Company’s May edition has a traffic chart showing FB exceeds 15M Active daily users.
Dustin once noted with a straight face that FB is the best architected web application on the internet. While google wins that award, facebook page delivery scales very nicely. It will be interesting to see whether the relevancy of the Feed can be improved while the data flow continue to grow exponentially.
