Pictify. Le Pinterest des musées. Pinterest has overtaken Tumblr in the United States. Posted in Tech blog on June 28th, 2012 by Pingdom The Web has been abuzz about Pinterest for a while now. There is, shall we say, a great interest in Pinterest. So much interest, it turns out, that Pinterest in all likelihood is now getting more traffic than Tumblr in the United States. And if it isn’t, it soon will. How did we come to this conclusion? We hit as many data sources as we possibly could and made a highly educated guess, and just so you don’t think we are making this up, we’ll take you through the process.
Analyzing website traffic, Pinterest vs. There are numerous sources that estimate website traffic to the world’s top sites. Alexa According to Alexa, Pinterest is currently the 16th most trafficked site in the United States, while Tumblr is ranked just below it at number 17. Win: Pinterest Google Trends for Websites Compete According to Compete, Pinterest got 19.38 million unique visitors in the United States in May. Win: Tumblr Quantcast 2 – 2, we need more data! Experian Hitwise. Pinterest / Home. Why is Pinterest Spamming Your Facebook Friends? There’s no doubt that what interest-aggregation site Pinterest has managed over the past few months is spectacular.
Recently reaching the milestone of 10 million users, the site has gained traction faster than just about any other site in history. But with that growth comes the responsibility to handle it and the site seems to be falling into spammer territory. A couple of hours ago (as of the time that I’m writing this), Google’s Don Dodge started tweeting that Pinterest was sending him a mass amount of emails saying that he had been followed on the site, and then asking him to follow that person back. Rightly suspicious by the volume of emails that were being sent, Dodge connected directly to one of the people to ask whether the request was made: “They said they received an email from me saying I followed them on Pinterest, and suggested they follow me back.” Need further proof? A couple of questions obviously come to mind.
So what’s the right answer? Luxury Brands on Pinterest. Learnist. Un Pinterest like pour enseignants et étudiants. Pinterest Beats Out Yahoo! Organic Traffic in August. We’ve been excited to watch Pinterest’s growth since the beginning of the year. Tapping into our publisher network of more than 200,000 publishers who reach 300 million people each month, we’ve watched Pinterest send more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined in January, Twitter in February and StumbleUpon, Bing and Google Referral Traffic in June.
Here is the breakdown of the percentage share of visits for each traffic source: Last month, we noticed that Pinterest was on track to beat out Yahoo! Organic traffic in August–and we were right. In the month of August, Pinterest sent more traffic than Yahoo organic traffic and is now the fourth largest traffic source in the world. While it is still far behind both Google organic, direct and Facebook referral traffic with an undetermined business model, Pinterest continues to send more traffic each month to our network of publishers. Over the past few months, Pinterest traffic has been especially hot.