August 08, 2004

A Billion Here, a Billion There

Pretty soon it adds up to real traffic.

Right at the end of July, Craigslist hit a rate of 1 billion pageviews per month. Back in January I'd heard a reported figure of 500 million pageviews per month. That's a ton of growth in seven months. I'm betting 2 billion per month is right around the corner.

Reminds me of when I first joined eBay and had an eye-opening (and humbling) experience. I'd previously worked at MP3.com, where we were so proud to hit 150 million pageviews per month. eBay, I learned, was doing something like a billion pageviews a day. A totally different league. Helped me apppreciate how MP3.com was never a big deal in the Valley... ("Where'd you use to work?" "MP3." "Wow, you worked at Napster?" "No, I worked at MP3.com" "Oh. I thought you meant you worked at Napster.")

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