Facebook Sees Flood of New Traffic from Teenagers and Adults. July 5, 2007 Facebook Sees Flood Of New Traffic From Teenagers and Adults Open Registration at Facebook.com Spurs 89 Percent Visitor Growth versus Last Year RESTON, VA, July 5, 2007 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the results of a study on the visitation to Facebook.com, which showed the site grew to 26.6 million unique visitors in the U.S. in May 2007, marking an 89-percent increase versus the same month last year.
The dramatic growth comes on the heels of Facebook.com’s decision in September 2006 to open up registration to the general public, a change from the previous policy requiring a valid email address from a university or a selected group of secondary schools and businesses. Growth at Facebook Takes Off After Open Registration In the months prior to allowing open registration, Facebook.com’s traffic hovered at approximately 14 million visitors per month. Open Registration Brings Deluge of Teenagers and Young Adults to Facebook. Compete. Quantcast - Open Internet Ratings Service. 6 Key Ways to Measure Your Blog’s Success. After the official launch on Monday of yet another service which measures popularity of blogs - Spotplex - it's time to revisit this space, long ruled by Technorati.
Are the new contenders strong enough, and what's the ultimate way of measuring your blog's popularity and success? (For an extensive list of tools to measure pageviews and visitor metrics for all websites, see our recent article Analytics Toolbox: 50+ Ways to Track Website Traffic). Spotplex We're starting with the newcomer, which may be first in this list, but it has a long road ahead. Spotplex has a strikingly simple, yet effective way of measuring popularity of blogs - it tracks actual visits via a script which blog owners have to install on their blogs to be included in the list. One would say that this is the most accurate way to track blog's popularity, but Spotplex's own results don't yet indicate that - partly because many big blogs simply didn't add the Spotplex script yet. Sphere Feedburner Alexa Compete Technorati.