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Imgur Hits 100 Million Monthly Unique Visitors

By TechTaffy Desk

imgurOnline image sharing and hosting platform Imgur has crossed 100 million monthly unique users. Imgur’s web traffic pegs is at number 28 in the US, as per Alexa rankings.

Imgur now hosts more than 650,000,000 images and attracts up to 1,000,000 uploads daily, says the company. More than a quarter of site traffic is direct and increasing each month, with organic search representing 5%.

 

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