The Friday Traffic Report has an interesting post on what are the Top 10 Social Sites By Alexa Rankings. Alexa is not the most reliable of ranking services although in this case, they may be fairly close. Social networkers appear to use the Alexa Toolbar in greater numbers than non social networkers.
What is probably more remarkable are the sites that are missing from the list. The top listed are:
- YouTube
- MySpace
- Orkut
- Hi5
- Flickr
- Friendster
- Skyrock
- Bebo
- Digg
It depends on how you define a social site of course, but with Digg appearing at number 10 and possibly considered more a social bookmarking site than a social networking, the fact that StumbleUpon, Reddit and Propeller are not there is quite interesting.
StumbleUpon more so given the reported high use of the Alexa Toolbar by SU users. Skyrock is the interesting one at number 8 given it has been very much regionalised, more so by language than anything else. Expanding into English has obviously given it a real lift.
The usual suspects take up the first five spots, however with Friendster, Bebo and Skyrock in the list they are certainly worth adding to your social networking rounds.
