Reddit is a website which has been around us for 13 years. The website was originally launched in 2005. Founders included 22 – year – old graduate from the University of Virginia, Alexis Ohanian, and Steve Huffman. Steve is currently the CEO of the website starting from 2015. The main question many new users have is what exactly the need of the website is, and why it has been serving for years. It is like a front page of the web, where you have communities, wherein like-minded people regularly keep posting on relevant topics, these can be discussed or keep aside based on the poles and other factors like as karmas.
What is Reddit?
Like we mentioned on the front page of the internet, it is something similar only. It can also be taken as the bulletin board in any organization. If we see the count, Reddit has been the 6th most popular website with Google, YouTube, Facebook, Baidu and Wikipedia taking the places ahead Reddit, while we have likes of Amazon, Twitter, Instagram, which are below the popularity of Reddit.
There are many different people who use Reddit, and such a large number must include all the different generation of people. But today we are going to diversify the people who are using the service and look forward to the exact amount and type of people who are growing the usage of the website.
Basic Details about Demographics
Demographics of Reddit include the different categories of persons who visit the website, frequently, once in a while, stays on the website, duration and more. All these are stored differentiating in gender, age, location, and ethnicity. These details are difficult to track but are mostly done by Google based on their accounts, and the Reddit accounts which include all the information for any particular person, rest also depends on the internet service providers. Let us now have a look at the different type of readers viewing Reddit and having a nice reading and information gathering session.
1. Reddit Politics Demographics
Surprisingly Reddit has huge data gathered from 2016 elections. This Reddit Politics data is helping to know a person is a supporter of the parties. There are subreddits for all types of political categories. It includes communism, socialism, the Democratic party etc. These subreddit categories following people belong to educated and mostly middle and young aged people.
2. Reddit Age and Gender Demographics
Reddit in the recent past is majorly used by the young generations where mostly it was male. Young Males are mostly using Reddit for gathering information about the new technologies and looking forward to researchers and other debates. There are 30% of young females that make to the traffic on Reddit this makes it clear that young female are also interested and these numbers might increase in the near feature. Particularly in US 18 – 29-year-old people have up to 22% of viewers, 30 – 49 years old makeup to 34%, 50- 64 years old makes it to 25% while the rest 19% is above 65 years of age. The rest 19 might also include some young researchers and enthusiasts bellow 18 years of age. All the users here on Reddit are widespread in most age groups.
3. Location
This is the second available criteria which denote the demographics of any website. For the starters we have United State which is on just 40%, there are other countries also which have 6.3% in Canada, 7.6% in the UK, Austria at 3.1%, and Germany at just 2.3%. These values are kind of low, but there are more than 208 countries which make it a nice number. Do note that these numbers come from IP Addresses hence you will have some fake entries which come through VPN. China was previously blocked from using Reddit due to unknown reason. But we can make out that more than 50% of Reddit users are based in the US, and it’s the place from where it the most famous.
4. Time Spent on the Site
Most of the users spend around 15 – 20 minutes on the website. From Alexa, it is clear that on an average a particular user spends around 15 minutes and 50 seconds on the total. Also, there are people who just visit the website and leave the same. Another most important thing on Reddit is that people don’t make it to posts and comments.
5. Operating System Choice
In 2018 a poll was made for Reddit users about the different operating systems being used by Reddit. Windows made it to 36%, while Android was at just 31%, which is followed by iOS, MacOS, and Linux. This makes clear that most Windows users are the most widely used users. Also, it is clear that despite no official application available for Reddit on Mobile, people are using Reddit via the unofficial medium. Hence Reddit in the recent past has been making quite a good amount of reputation.
6. SubREDDIT Use
Reddit is just a collection of different subReddit. There are a number of different subreddits on the list which attracts all the different redditors. One of the most known ones is r/announcements where one can find the official announcements from Reddit. People have made a number of different subreddits where you can post about them, these are the topics which are trending and more and more people are falling for the same.
You can find a subreddit about each and every topic which is trending and is famous, although note that not all subreddits are trending famous topics, as people make some and find that none of the people are interested, and they keep there for years. One of the best thing about Reddit is that they always make it clear that none of the nonsense will be entertained by the redditors or the website. We always find a topic that adheres to the guidelines of the website, and also to the people who are using it.
Have you been clear about the Demographics of Reddit? What do you think about Reddit and the people who have been using it lately? Have you used Reddit for any of your usages? If yes then do let us know which is the best subreddits you have been following or you might have created in the comment section below