Digg executives deny web site traffic declines

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of November 16 morning, a media report last week, the social news site Digg traffic has recently seen a sharp decline.　　But Ben Fokker Williams (Ben Folk-williams), the vice president of Digg Engineering, has written to refute this claim. According to Digg's internal use of Google Analytics tools, the number of independent user visits to Digg has remained at 16 million to 19 million over the past 6 months.　　And after Digg launched Digg newsrooms Beta, the site traffic has increased. Other points of the Fokker-Williams article include:-Digg newsrooms has been tested for about 1 months and has received a good response.　　Page views per visit are 3 times times higher than the traditional Digg service.　　-Facebook fans are getting more involved, and Facebook users spend an average of 15 minutes on Digg, up from 10 minutes in other ways to log on to Digg users.　　-The number of daily users has increased by 23% after the introduction of an improved and integrated newsrooms iOS application. -Digg site 51% of the traffic is direct traffic. This means that users can enter the Digg site 13 million times a month by entering the digg.com URL directly in the browser. (Zhang Fan)