08.19.09
Wikia hits top 100 on Quantcast :-)
Wow, coming on the heels of the great news I got yesterday about our Comscore numbers…
W00t!
Just for fun, here’s a comparison of Wikia (all sites) with Mahalo (all sites). Some of you may know that Jason Calacanis enjoys poking at me and not long ago made a bit of a stir in the blogosphere by calling me a poser and saying I’m not a real entrepreneur. Who’s posing now, Jason? (Actually I love and respect Jason, even if he does like to talk trash, and had a nice visit with him at Mahalo not long ago, so this is all in fun. But I dare you tweet this blog post, Jason… ;-) )
Wikia vs Mahalo
Note: the above are screenshots, you can see the live numbers for Wikia stats as well!
08.18.09
Wikia up 20%+ in July – 6.5 million US uniques
I just saw our July ComScore numbers and wow! In June we posted more than 5 million unique visitors, with 5 and a quarter million. That was great, and a 10% increase over the month before.
But July was insane – over 6.5 million US uniques, up by 24% over June!
There are several reasons for this, mostly based on software changes that we’ve made in the past few months. (I.E. this isn’t a launch-related spike, this is strong organic growth). I’ll detail some of that soon, just waiting on some other numbers to break. :)
My view of Wikia is that we’re spreading the growth of free culture out of purely academic/research and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in new media and free licensing. Exciting stuff to see it really resonate with people…
At the office they are celebrating with a trampoline!
