Finance Website Web Traffic Comparison

Below is a comparison of the web traffic rank of some of the most popular finance sites on the web.  The list was formulated simply based on websites that came to mind, so it's highly probable that I missed some high traffic sites in here somewhere.  CNN money, yahoo finance and google finance are also three big finance sites that would make the list which can't be extracted from their larger parent sites.

For all the fragmentation of news that the web has caused, the big guys still get the most traffic.  Business insider is the lone new-media entrant which has competitive traffic numbers to Forbes, etc.  The only true blog that makes this list is zerohedge.  The average big name finance blog has a rank between 20,000 and 200,000.

Is Facebook Dying?

After rallying from $25 back to $32, FB stock has taken a beating in the past two days and is now back at $28 per share.  While the stock movement is troublesome for owners, a trend that may be even more troubling is that in spite of a p/e multiple of 85x, FB's underlying business may be shrinking, not growing.  Below is a chart pulled from Alexa.com which shows that the average amount of time that a user spends on Facebook is declining rather rapidly.  Whereas in 2011 the average user spent over 30 minutes per day on facebook's site, over the last 7 days that figure has dropped below 20.  Hopefully for Mark Zuckerberg, that extra time is being spent on Instagram.