I had my own brush with DIGG a couple of weeks ago with 4,000 visitors in two hours. Now another site has come up with more detailed study of the traffic effect of being of the first page of DIGG had for that site. In CyberNet's case, there were 4 articles in the first 10 days of July that got to the first page of DIGG. Cybernet also picked up more RSS subscribers and regular readers because of the traffic from DIGG.
The obvious effect on a website after a front page Digg article is the huge increase in visitors and traffic. The four articles that made the front page of Digg were:
- Firefox 2.0 Gets Undo Close Tab & Scrolling Tabs (July 1st)
- 9 Screenshots Of Firefox 2.0’s New Preferences (July 7th)
- Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Candidate Now Available (July 8th)
- How To Tweak Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 (July 9th)
And the other thing that's interesting is all 4 artlces were about FireFox and the predominant browser for Digg users is FireFox!!!
"With 4 articles all regarding Firefox making it to the front page of Digg, it’s not hard to figure out which browser was most prevalent during our “Digg Days.” You guessed it, Firefox with about 75% of the users and Internet Explorer next with around 12%. Both Safari and Opera had about 4% of the share. As a funny side note, one of the browsers listed in the statistics was named “I am using a browser and OS so new and innovative that you will never have heard of it”—proof that someone altered their browser with a new identity—you know who you are, identify yourself and this “innovative” browser you’ve got. Yes, Google Analytics really does give you every statistic imaginable.
That's pretty much opposite of the typical visitor browser profile which is still ~75% IE6.
So the DIGG community really is different, more progressive (maybe ahead of it's time) and the things that get on the front page of DIGG might not be the typical things one writes about.
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