Dreamgrow: Google+ traffic drops sharply, down 37% overall

Google+ accounted for the largest share of Google traffic in August

Google+ accounted for Google's total traffic in August

On August 30, 2011, the American technology news blog Dreamgrow reported that data from traffic monitoring website Alexa showed that Google+'s share of Google's overall traffic had begun to decline sharply in the past 18 days, a drop of 37%.

The article also lists other problems with Google+, such as the inability to use personal accounts to create business pages, no one informing users of the progress of Google+ development, and Google+ not opening up its application development API, etc. However, Alexa is generally only a reference for tracking web traffic and is not the most reliable data source.

Google CEO Larry Page said at Google's second quarter earnings conference on July 15 that Google+ has more than 10 million users and shares 1 billion times a day. Page also specifically mentioned that circles are very popular among Google+ users.

At that time, Google+ had only been launched for 2 weeks and had accumulated 10 million users, accounting for 1.3% of Facebook's 750 million users.