---
title: "Digg stats after Jason Calacanis offer"
date: 2006-08-02
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Digg stats after Jason Calacanis offer

The [Diggtrends](https://web.archive.org/web/20110413102157/http://diggtrends.com/) website has just done some stats relating to the Netscape owner’s [offer to buy out](https://web.archive.org/web/20110413102157/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/calacanis_offer.php) digg’s top users. They found that the top 10 users contributed 1792 of the frontpage stories – i.e. 29.8%. The top 100 contributed 3324 stories, i.e. 55.28%. Nearly 30% of frontpage stories contributed by just 10 people is a pretty amazing stat – talk about the A-List!

What’s more, there are 444,809 registered users and out of these only 2287 contributed one or more story for the period of 6/19/2006 to 7/30/2006. The implication being that relatively few Digg users a) contribute at all; and b) even fewer regularly get onto the frontpage.

More details [on my ZDNet blog](https://web.archive.org/web/20110413102157/http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=250) and [on Diggtrends.com](https://web.archive.org/web/20110413102157/http://diggtrends.com/stats.aspx) when they release the full stats.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/digg_stats_afte.php))*