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# The Power Of Sharing: Study Shows Facebook Dominates Share Traffic On Web
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/the-power-of-sharing-study-shows-facebook-dominates-share-traffic-on-web/
- Published: 2011-06-06T11:43:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-06-06T11:43:00.000Z
- Description: A new study by ShareThis along with Starcom MediaVest Group and Rubinson Partners looked at the the sharing and clicking habits of the more than 300 million who each month. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/06/the-power-of-sharing-study-shows-facebook-dominates-share-traffic-on-
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Social Media, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:55

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A new study by **[ShareThis](http://sharethis.com/?ref=hypebot.com)** along with Starcom MediaVest Group and Rubinson Partners looked at the the sharing and clicking habits of the more than **300 million** who each month links via a share a ShareThis button on over a million websites including **Hypebo**t (*see just below each pos*t). Despite the plethora of sharing possibilities from Twitter to StmbleUpon and beyond, Facebook dominates with 38% of share traffic. Overall, sharing now produces an estimated 10% of all net traffic and 31% of referral traffic to sites from search and social, according to [TechCrunch](http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/06/sharethis-facebook-38-percent-traffic/?ref=hypebot.com). Search is still about twice as big. **The Social Sharing Charts:**

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