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Facebook Drives 350x More Traffic to News/Media Sites than Google Reader

Posted February 6, 2010 at 1:58 pm by Tonia Ries | 0 comments

According to a ReadWriteWeb analysis of Hitwise numbers, Facebook drives 350 times as much traffic to other websites in the “news and media” category (3.5%) as Google Reader does (.01%).

However, Facebook, Google News (1.4%). and Google Reader togetheraccount for less than 5% of news sites’ total traffic. The #1, 2 and 3 drivers of traffic to news sites? Google, Yahoo and MSN.

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Posted in Statistics. Tags: Facebook, Google, Google News, Google Reader, Hitwise, media, MSN, news, RSS, traffic, Yahoo. .