{"id":372949,"date":"2018-08-11T10:54:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T09:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-is-shedding-massive-traffic\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T10:54:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T09:54:01","slug":"prison-planet-com-facebook-is-shedding-massive-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-facebook-is-shedding-massive-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Facebook is shedding massive traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/08\/08\/facebook-traffic-down-youtube-gaining-ground\/\"><strong>BGR.com<\/strong><\/a><br \/>August 10, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Four billion. That, according to a new study shared with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/08\/08\/youtube-is-about-to-pass-facebook-as-the-second-biggest-website-accor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><em>CNBC<\/em><\/a> by\u00a0market research firm SimilarWeb, is how many monthly page visits Facebook has shed in a slow-drip but nevertheless huge decline over the last two years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s traffic hasn\u2019t just fallen by about half since 2016, according to the study. Among the consequences of such a precipitous drop is the opening it\u2019s given to YouTube, which the study\u2019s data shows is about to overtake Facebook to become the second biggest site, traffic-wise, in the U.S. Which would give Google ownership of the top two spots, pushing Facebook down to number three.<\/p>\n<p>CNBC describes the drop at Facebook as \u201csevere\u201d and goes on to round out its list this way: \u201cThe five websites receiving the most traffic in the U.S. in the last several years have been Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo and\u00a0Amazon, in that order. However, Facebook has seen a severe decline in monthly page visits, from 8.5 billion to 4.7 billion in the last two years, according to the study. Although Facebook\u2019s app traffic has grown, it is not enough to make up for that loss, the study said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google trouncing Facebook is a bit ironic, considering it was Google\u2019s attempt at a feed-based social network (Google+) that ended up falling flat, when it turned out Google already owned a social winner this whole time in the form of YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also one more suggestion that maybe, finally we\u2019re hitting \u201cpeak social.\u201d (We can only hope, for the good of mankind.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/08\/08\/facebook-traffic-down-youtube-gaining-ground\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, August 10, 2018  at  7:28 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-is-shedding-massive-traffic.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/facebook-is-shedding-massive-traffic.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BGR.comAugust 10, 2018 Four billion. That, according to a new study shared with CNBC by\u00a0market research firm SimilarWeb, is how many monthly page visits Facebook has shed in a slow-drip but nevertheless huge decline over the last two years. Facebook\u2019s traffic hasn\u2019t just fallen by about half since 2016, according to the study. Among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}