Reddit's Traffic Fell 6.6% During 48HR Blackout (opens in new tab)

If someone were to have me blindly guess, I would have said that 6.6% was within normal daily variance.

Only 6.6%? That's highly unbelievable I think. Subs like programming, technology, python, etc. that went dark are like reddit's "bread-butter" when it comes to getting eyeballs from google. Their impact must be higher than that.

Now I wonder how much of their traffic isn't human.

If only out of muscle memory, when I visited during the blackout period, there was little content of interest left.

There’s a loud 6.6% who are way too invested in Reddit.

95% of Reddit is someone posting a crappy picture of or making some unclever observation about their watch/car/knife/whatever. I can live without this content.

Frankly I think the quality of content (which was always hit or miss on Reddit) has improved since Monday.

I guess people were visiting reddit to see who isn't protesting?

Traffic

How much was the drop of new topics, comments, etc?

The stuff that actually creates the traffic?

So not much? Business as usual. As always, the rest of the internet just follows along. Only a few mods got replaced. And the company's IPO will still be profitable...