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Duncan Riley had an interesting post on The Inquisitr tonight, talking about the possibility of Mashable overtaking TechCrunch (and sub-domains) as the leading Web 2.0 blog by Traffic.
Riley included graphs from Compete, Alexa, ComScore and Quantcast to illustrate his point. Of course, what and how you count matter. What is clear: Mashable is a close second and definitely within striking distance.
Compete shows Mashable at roughly 1.5 million uniques a month and TC at just over 1.7 million. Both are up significantly for the year. Compete says Mashable grew a bit last month and TC lost a few paces. That could have been due to TC founder Michael Arrington taking the month off. My guess is that trend is reversed with Arrington back and the addition of “Valley Girl” Sarah Lacy.
What is most interesting however is the graph Riley left out of his post — perhaps for obvious reasons… The ComScore graph shows the phenomenal growth of his own site.
Riley says he doesn’t believe the graph. Compete.com shows a more modest growth curve for The Inquisitr, but recall that Riley started The Inquisitr less than a year ago. He was a TC blogger so he knows what a successful tech blog looks like.
What’s the key takeaway? All three of these guys (Pete Cashmore of Mashable, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch and Duncan Riley of The Inquisitr) are exceedingly bright, know how to work hard and have great teams around them. All three blogs should be at the top of your list if you’re looking for smart, thoughtful and influential coverage in the tech space.
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