Compete And Hitwise Show Flat Traffic Stats For Facebook In August

According to Compete.com, traffic to Facebook declined under 1 percent within the United States for the first time in over a year after posting less than stellar growth the month prior. Given that the traffic estimates were only domestic, summer vacations may have been the cause for the lack of growth. Twitter in contrast posted minor growth of 1.27 percent. Also fairly strange was a dramatic drop off in traffic to Facebook Connect enabled sites.