By ‘this site’ do you mean the forum or all the other resources on effectivealtruism.org? In either case, if the 80,000 Hours site counts as an EA site then I highly doubt that! My guess is that the answer is going to depend on how wide the catchment is for ‘EA site’, but most construals are going to put 80K right out in front. Maybe GiveWell is up there, plus the GWWC site and The Life You Can Save. I also think that Nick Bostrom’s personal site gets a surprising number of hits. I would guess the forum is middling to top around these sites? Very interested in being proved wrong about that!
Obviously all these sites have their own numbers, but I haven’t seem them pooled together in some publicly available resource (nor am I sure that would be useful). I do know of some exact numbers but don’t think it would be sensible to share them without permission. Unfortunately, in my experience it’s also not totally straightforward to glean those stats from the outside, although search engine rankings etc are a good proxy.
From January—December 2020, the Forum had 168,000 unique users. So 80K “wins” by an order of magnitude (and as FinM notes, there are other sites that may be bigger than the Forum; GiveWell had ~600,000 unique users in 2018).
Sorry for misinterpreting “biggest” — I just failed at basic reading comprehension :-(
FWIW, the Forum had roughly 1.2 million hits, so 80K’s count of unique users is still higher than that number, and I’d guess their hits are at least double that.
I guess that this site will be the biggest by at least 10x.
By ‘this site’ do you mean the forum or all the other resources on effectivealtruism.org? In either case, if the 80,000 Hours site counts as an EA site then I highly doubt that! My guess is that the answer is going to depend on how wide the catchment is for ‘EA site’, but most construals are going to put 80K right out in front. Maybe GiveWell is up there, plus the GWWC site and The Life You Can Save. I also think that Nick Bostrom’s personal site gets a surprising number of hits. I would guess the forum is middling to top around these sites? Very interested in being proved wrong about that!
Obviously all these sites have their own numbers, but I haven’t seem them pooled together in some publicly available resource (nor am I sure that would be useful). I do know of some exact numbers but don’t think it would be sensible to share them without permission. Unfortunately, in my experience it’s also not totally straightforward to glean those stats from the outside, although search engine rankings etc are a good proxy.
From 80,000 Hours’ 2019 annual review:
From January—December 2020, the Forum had 168,000 unique users. So 80K “wins” by an order of magnitude (and as FinM notes, there are other sites that may be bigger than the Forum; GiveWell had ~600,000 unique users in 2018).
fwiw I said hits, not unique users. I am not surprised that 80k has more uniques.
Sorry for misinterpreting “biggest” — I just failed at basic reading comprehension :-(
FWIW, the Forum had roughly 1.2 million hits, so 80K’s count of unique users is still higher than that number, and I’d guess their hits are at least double that.