{"id":804,"date":"2009-12-13T00:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T00:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2018-04-19T21:54:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:54:39","slug":"stack-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/2009\/12\/13\/stack-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Stack stats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The higher someone\u2019s Stack Overflow<\/a> reputation, the more likely they are to have submitted a CV to Stack Overflow Careers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is not entirely surprising, of course: the more time someone has invested in Stack Overflow, the more likely they are to (a) know about Stack Overflow Careers, (b) be willing to invest $29, after all the hours they\u2019ve already sunk, and (c) have the confidence that their CV is going to impress the kind of employers that are using the site.<\/p>\n

Still, the participation rate in Stack Overflow Careers is pretty impressive, and it somewhat confirms the claim we\u2019re making to employers, which is that when you search for CVs on Stack Overflow, you are looking at some pretty gosh darn good programmers.<\/p>\n

While I\u2019m rattling on about statistics, here\u2019s a little bit of data about Stack Overflow traffic itself that you may not have seen.<\/p>\n

We use Quantcast<\/a> to measure our traffic. Currently, they\u2019re showing us<\/a> as the 740th ranked site in the world (of all sites), with 6 million monthly unique visitors, 1.9 million from the US. And the growth is pretty steady, except for a couple of weeks at the end there which reflect the holiday season:<\/p>\n

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Comparing our traffic to our big competitor is difficult because they don\u2019t use Quantcast, so we have to rely on Alexa, which has a reputation for particularly terrible data, but here\u2019s what that looks like:<\/p>\n

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Are there any sites out there for programmers with more<\/em> traffic than Stack Overflow? I haven\u2019t found any, using the available data… even msdn.microsoft.com has less, according to Quantcast, but I find that hard to believe.<\/p>\n

In either case, having decided that Stack Overflow was the biggest programming site in the world, I thought, \u201chey, it should be easier for us to get ads.\u201d I asked our ad guy, Alex \u201cDailyWTF\u201d Papadimoulis, if Microsoft had bought any ads. They\u2019re about to launch Visual Studio 2010, which is probably going to have the biggest marketing campaign (in dollars) in the history of developer tools, and you\u2019d think they\u2019d want to spend something<\/em> at the biggest programming site in the world. Here\u2019s what he wrote back:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMicrosoft is doing huge spends, but they\u2019re going through McCann for the VS2010 launch (IIRC). Agencies really don\u2019t like us. Now if we go to video units with fly-over\u2026 oh they\u2019ll start loving us!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What he\u2019s referring to is the fact that we don\u2019t accept any kind of animated ads on Stack Overflow, because, well, they\u2019re evil, so we lose a lot of revenue from advertising agencies who are looking for the most aggressive possible ways to get in people\u2019s faces. Whatever. Don\u2019t care. We hate animated ads and I\u2019m pretty sure our users do, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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