HN accounts for 12% of Social Bookmark referral traffic

This data is sounds biased.<p>Delicious did in the BILLIONS of monthly PVs when I left - I really doubt HN throws more traffic in aggregate.

Anybody else thinking we should be alarmed at this kind of data - because of the spammers and self-promoters who will flock to HN, I mean...

I had a phone call this morning with our national GM, where I had to explain why HN is noted as consistently in our top 5 referring sites (which is to say I had to explain what HN actually is).<p>That's attributable to the fact that I'm active in this community, so I was surprised to see it accounting for so much traffic on a larger sample, but there's certainly evidence that even links that get no votes and no comments still drive traffic (though not as much as links that add value and create discussion).

the fact that they have HN as having 2.4 times more referrer traffic than reddit makes me question this.<p>Look at the numbers, HN is a top 3,000 site, reddit is a top 300 site.

Hn is not a social bookmarking website.

Wow, slashdot has really fallen far.<p>I know that I personally hardly read it anymore, but I used to read it many times per day.

This wasn't at all surprising to me. HN has a great community of tech enthusiasts who have a insatiable appetite for tech content. I'm sure the people who ask for critiques on their web apps get a nice traffic boost.

Useful data, thanks! I'm a little disappointed the pie charts don't include 'Other', which would have given a sense of how long the tail is.<p>Regarding the seeming discrepancy in data for Google's share, the reasons are probably: (i) more of Bing/Yahoo's traffic stays within their portals than Google's does, and (ii) Google is especially dominant among tech-savvy users, and the websites that were analyzed have proportionally more of such users (which would also explain why HN shows up).

Argh misleading stupid 3d graphs!

Considering that Social Networking site data is skewed due to not accounting for apps, could it be possible that is happening in the Social Bookmark space as well? Do Reddit and Slashdot have iPhone/Android apps?

The reason why slashdot.org shows no traffic driven is because most visitors there know to block their referer.

People still use StumbleUpon?