Reddit Surpasses Facebook To Become the Third Most Visited Site in the US: Alexa (thenextweb.com)

According to Alexa, the Amazon-owned web traffic analyzing platform, more people now visit Reddit than Facebook in the US. From a report: Spotted, of course, on Reddit by user IamATechieNerd, the stats will be a big boost for the social sharing platform, especially with many users still irked about the recent re-design. It's important to note that analyzing web traffic using a tool like Alexa is not an exact science, but it's interesting that it has now put Reddit ahead of Facebook. If the stats are to be believed, Google is still the most visited site, followed by YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook, with Amazon rounding out the top five.

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[Dan East]

Alexa mesures HTML / website visits to facebook.com. However, the vast majority of people who use Facebook use the FB app on a mobile device. A very tiny fraction of FB users do so using the website now. Facebook has 1.45 BILLION daily users. That's how many hits Reddit sees in an entire month.