Linux News Sites Web Traffic Slowdown: Is this for real?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 16:49.
As with the U.S. economy, it seems like the web traffic of several well-known Linux related news sites are slowing down. According to statistics from Alexa, famous sites like Slashdot, Linux.com, and Linux Journal among others have a sudden decrease in site visitors. For the last few months, the decline is unbelievable. See the graphs below to know what I mean:
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To Apple fanboys who think that this is happening because Linux is out and Mac is in, check-out the stats of your favorite Apple news sites below:
EU 3 month summer vacation and Netbooks took away visitors ?
Free Linux suffers from financial woes? Come on?
Netbooks took away visitors when people no longer need to find out which Linux distros are recommended. EU summer vacation is 3 months and well known, Linux is more popular in EU because they have more time on their hands. US is hustle factory, famous by no time for desert?
Here, we are more focusing on hardware than Linux. and hardware distros are gaining recommendations. We hope to pickup more guests by hardware planning discussions to titillate Linux minds, getting rid of PCI/ISA buses and DDR. Getting rid of as many files in Linux for each hardware peripheral that owns a file in Linux dependency library. Tiny Linux distros will never had it so good? Stillman is crying the wolf?
Netcraft, not Alexa
Alexa=win+ie+spyware+manipulative webmasters.
Use Netcraft.
The other thing is, more Linux sites are created, growing at the expense of 'big ones'.