Welcome to Shareaholic’s monthly traffic sources report, where each month we take a look at the traffic trends for our 200,000 publishers who reach 300 million people each month and take a look at the trends of how readers are arriving at your sites. Here is a breakdown of October’s… continue reading.

With the launch of the iPhone 5, many are turning their attention once again to how mobile visitors are discovering the content they create. They’re looking at how they will effectively engage those visitors through the right content and advertising and how the right branded content can be appropriately optimized… continue reading.

I noticed an intriguing Tweet from NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen that I thought was worth delving into: Anyone who’s seen the numbers knows that traffic to news sites doesn’t come in through the home page anymore.bit.ly/OylQVj — Jay Rosen(@jayrosen_nyu) August 23, 2012 His Tweet linked to a Nieman Journalism Lab… continue reading.

According to a new study from front-end optimization provider Strangeloops Networks and shared by Marketing Charts, retail websites load approximately 9% slower this year. What may be the culprit? More page elements – images and third-party scripts are the bulk of that. We know this is something our publishers care… continue reading.

We’ve been excited to watch Pinterest’s growth since the beginning of the year. Tapping into our publisher network of more than 200,000 publishers who reach 300 million people each month, we’ve watched Pinterest send more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined in January, Twitter in February and StumbleUpon, Bing and Google Referral Traffic… continue reading.