Similarweb: Mostly False But Still Amusing
THIS is not a boastful article. We just need to set the record straight.
This is almost all false:
The only thing it is correct about is traffic going up (Alexa.com relied on malware to measure this and Netcraft probably still does, more so now that Alexa.com - as in the original thing for ranking sites' traffic - is officially dead):
tuxmachines.org is not a competitor. For over a decade it has been a sister site.
And by country:
For comparison's sake, the subsites and main site of tuxmachines.org are ranked around the top 1,000 for the category (similar to DistroWatch). An associate who checked logs recently estimated 10,000-15,000 daily readers. That's like a small stadium.
The important thing, however, is accuracy, not "audience" size. We're not a business. We never had ads, either. We moved to 100% static pages a few months ago (just like in Gemini) - a move we had planned since 2022 - in order to lower the cost of operating the sites. All our donors are readers of the sites. █