Digg come with equipped with some tools to help people integrate with their site & Reddit come with simplicity.

About Digg

Digg is a community-based popularity website with an emphasis on technology and science articles, recently expanding to a variety of other categories such as politics and videos. It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control. News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the front page through a user-based ranking system. This differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many other news sites employ.

Readers can view all of the stories that have been submitted by fellow users in the “digg/All/Upcoming” section of the site. Once a story has received enough “diggs”, it appears on Digg’s front page. Should the story not receive enough diggs, or if enough users report a problem with the submission, the story will remain in the “digg all” area, where it may eventually be removed.

About Reddit

Reddit is a community website where users can post links to content on the web. Other users may then vote the posted links up or down, causing them to appear more or less prominently on the reddit home page.

The site also has discussion areas where users may discuss the posted links. Users may also vote for or against others’ comments. When there are enough votes against a given comment, it will not be displayed by default, although a reader can cause it to be shown through a link or preference. Users who submit articles which are liked and subsequently voted up receive “karma”, points which a user receives as a reward for submitting interesting articles.

Reddit also includes several topical sections called subreddits, which focus on specific topics, including programming and science.

Digg vs Reddit

I compare those sites with some simple tools like link popularity, search engine saturation, alexa rank ,etc…
Okay, i start to compare those sites:

Alexa Rank

Alexa is one of the largest Web crawls and an infrastructure to process and serve massive amounts of data.
Digg : 78
Reddit : 848
This is the graph:

blue : Digg
red : Reddit

The detail stats are here:
View digg.com Traffic Details
View reddit.com Traffic Details

Link Popularity

Link popularity check is one of the best ways to quantifiably and independently measure your website’s online awareness and overall visibility. Simply put, link popularity refers to the total number of links or “votes” that a search engine has found for your website.

Digg.com
* MSN: 1,075,097
* Google/ AOL/ HotBot: 88,600
* Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista: 1,040,866
Total: 2,204,563

Reddit.com
* MSN: 162,843
* Google/ AOL/ HotBot: 21,600
* Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista: 196,946
Total: 381,389

Search Engine Saturation

Search Engine Saturation simply refers to the number of pages a given search engine has in its index for your website domain. Not all search engines report this information but enough of them do to create some meaningful benchmarks for your search engine marketing campaigns.

Digg.com
* MSN: 279,621
* Google/ AOL/ HotBot: 2,410,000
* Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista: 9,616,984
Total: 12,306,605

Reddit.com
* Google/ AOL/ HotBot: 525,000
* MSN: 39,988
* Yahoo!/ FAST/ AltaVista: 284,189
Total: 849,177

Google Fight

I tried another tool that use google search engine to make comparation, the site is google fight

Now, you can know which is the site get more traffic.
It is up to you now, the more traffic it is not mean better from the other.

Sources & Tools:
Wikipedia
Market Leap
Google Fight

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Saturday, February 24th, 2007 at 1:47 pm | by Neezar |