Netscape Is Better Than Digg
Posted by Goody on 02/22/08 in Home and Family, Internet
Netscape is Better than Digg
..or, at least in my opinion it is.As the new version of Netscape is just over a year old now, it seemed like a good time to fairly compare Netscape and Digg, the 2 most popular social news media sites. Pronet did a good job going over the basics of Netscape, as they did for Digg as well.
By the Stats
Digging further into the details - yes - Alexa, Compete, and anyone else that covers stats clearly shows Digg as the winner. As of 7/19/07, Alexa ranks Digg as 95 versus Netscape’s 569 ranking.
But wait…what about Page Rank?
Digg has a PR of 8, while Netscape has a PR of 9. Of course, Netscape has an unfair advantage as they have been around longer than most people have been on the Internet. Still, PageRank is PageRank - and Netscape wins.
How about Stickiness?
Over to Compete for some analysis, we see the a Netscape user has 7.1 pages per visit versus Digg’s 3.9. For the average visit length - Netscape is more than twice as good, scoring 3:04 vs. 1:22 on Digg.
Beyond the Stats
Digg is a larger community, and has been in full view of the public for a longer time as social media with a year head start over Netscape.
Netscape on the other hand is still associated with being a browser or some sort of search engine. If you asked the average user, most do not know about the relaunch of Netscape.
You’ve already heard the clichés that Digg is for young, immature people whereas Netscape users are older, and news headline / politically minded. You have probably also heard that Netscape is just a Digg clone.
Still, Netscape just seems like a nicer community to me. It’s mainly news and politics based, but I’ve seen many good articles there about tech, humor, and religion. Digg still seems to be very tech and gag focused. If you look at the top stories side by side, there’s just something about Netscape for me. It just seems more like a community. Maybe it’s the little images next to the top stories. Something about it seems more friendly to me. What do you think? Would love to hear your opinions.
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