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Tumblr raised $85million in funding a few days ago and the reason has just become obvious. Tumblr saw its pageviews jump from 2 billion a month to 13 billion since the beginning of 2011. According to Quantcast, Tumblr attracts 72 million visitors a month, over 50% of them come from outside the US. The microblogging service recently passed 10 billion posts and is adding 40 million more each day.

Comparing this to Wikipedia, Wikipedia only gets a tenth of Tumblr’s visitors according to comscore. The reason Tumblr gets so many pageviews is because of its design. Logged in users drive majority of usage and page views majorly via reblogs. Comscore’s estimates are lower than Quantcasts but the same trends can be seen. In August, Tumblr broke into comScore’s top 100 sites with an estimated 41 million unique visitors and 6.5 billion pageviews a month. This places it at 21 among all sites ranked by pageviews per month. Comscore’s estimates Wikimedia foundation sites at 423 million unique visitors a month and they view 5.6 billion pages.

Here’s where Tumblr stands between the big guns:

1. Facebook (503B PVs/month)
2. Google (272B PVs/month)
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13. Craigslist (12.5B PVs/month)
14. AOL (12.4B PVs/month)
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21. Tumblr (6.5B PVs/month)
22. Wikimedia Foundation Sites (5.6B PVs/month)
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28. CBS Interactive (4.1B PVs/month)
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32. Twitter (3.4B PVs/month)
33. ESPN (3.3B PVs/month)

Tumblr users what do you think about this report? Can tumblr grow to as much users as Twitter and Facebook? Leave us a comment.

Binjo

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