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Netscape vs. Digg checkup: Netscape head says he's beating Digg

"We're on the same trajectory that Digg was at the beginning," Netscape head Jason Calacanis said onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit today about his social news site's main competitor. But that's not what one online stat tracker says. According to Alexa, Netscape's traffic has fallen since he revamped the site, despite Calacanis's claim that they're adding a thousand users a day.

To his credit, Netscape is still ahead of other social news sites like Reddit — for a couple more months anyway.

Netscape vs. Digg vs. Reddit vs. Wink vs. Newsvine [Alexa]

2:11 PM on Thu Nov 9 2006
By Nick Douglas
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  • Image of ray johnson ray johnson at 04:26 PM on 11/09/06
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    Least colorblind accessible graph ever.

  • Image of Vinny Vinny at 08:21 AM on 11/10/06
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    Alexa is a bad measuring stick for Digg or Netscape because they only count IE usage. Most Digg users (and I reckon quite a bit of Netscape users also) are Firefox users.

    Not that I disagree that Digg is slaying Netscape as far as traffic, but we have to be careful to compare apples to apples.

  • Image of m-c m-c at 09:08 AM on 11/10/06
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    The fact there is a rather large jump in Digg's traffic on Alexa in April 2006 caused by a digg story encouraging people to install the Alexa toolbar is just one of the reasons we should all Just Say No (tm) to Alexa's crack-filled numbers

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