 "Imgur now boasts of 100 million monthly unique visitors")
Image-sharing website Imgur has announced that it has breached the milestone of 100 million unique visitors per month. The website is now seeing about 27 million more unique visitors than it than Reddit, the popular social news website Imgur started on the back off.
In a blog post announcing the landmark, the Imgur team said that it was now supporting more than 1,200,000,000 daily image views that are “core to information sharing channels, the most popular and highly trafficked social networks, massive online communities, popular pop culture blogs and web forums for all kinds of content.”
To add to the announcement, Imgur also announced that it was making tweaks and boosting the service’s capacity. Imgur is now adding HTTPS support site-wide to allow for secure browsing all around the website. The service has now also decreased the limitations to allow users to upload larger filetypes with lower compression.
Why not Zoidberg?
While these file limits will vary for anonymous, registered and pro users, the sizes offered by Imgur are pretty decent. For example, a file of 20MB in size will be compressed to 1MB, 5MB and 10MB for anonymous, registered and pro users respectively. As far as GIF files go the sizes will start from 2MB and go up to 10MB.
Earlier this year, it was revealed that Imgur had been registered 3.6 billion pageviews. Founder Alan Schaaf announced the landmark figure back then. The service was started back in 2009 by Schaaf who wanted to create an image hosting service “that didn’t suck”, according to a post he made on Reddit. This, he thought, would solve a lot of image hosting issues on the “front page of the Internet”.
Eventually, Imgur became a whole new destination, synonymous with image hosting and completely distinct from Reddit. “In the beginning, only Redditors were using [Imgur] because it was fixing a problem I was trying to solve for Reddit,” Schaaf said in an interview with VentureBeat. “But what I ended up realizing is that this isn’t just a problem for Reddit — this is a problem for the entire Internet.”
It got a mini boost of sorts in June when Reddit banned meme generator Quickmeme on charges of vote manipulation. Imgur worked overtime and within days of the ban added a meme generator service to the service, drawing a lot more traffic than it did before. Add to it the fact that the service now has added an official app on both iOS and Android this year, and you’ll see exactly why it’s drawing in visitors by the millions.
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