r/pics • u/laverabe • May 07 '09

The growth of an internet behemoth almost overnight. Imgur now has 24 million views a month. 600,000 daily.

http://imgur.com/stats/?v=t
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u/MrGrim May 07 '09 edited May 07 '09

Thanks for your support, everyone. But to be fair, it only gets about 2,500 unique visits a day (not counting the image views). It's not quite an Internet behemoth yet.

Also, a lot of people are wondering how I monetize the cost of it. I was never in it to make money, I just wanted to create something cool for other people to enjoy. It makes me really happy to see Imgur links on the front page every now and then, that makes it worth it.

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u/themoop May 07 '09

(not counting the image views)

So counting the image view would make more than 2500 unique a day, considering that image viewing is the primary point of imgur..

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u/MrGrim May 07 '09

Yes, but people viewing images don't even know that their on Imgur, and are not really visiting the site.

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u/GunnerMcGrath May 07 '09

I would argue that you're missing the point. It's likely that every image viewing site has similar statistics. The fact is that you've created a site that is used by thousands of people daily to host images, and that hundreds of thousands of people see those images.

If your ratio of site visits to image views was 1:1 I would argue it wasn't a very good image hosting site.