Stumblers Out-Refer Facebookers

StumbleUpon takes No. 1 referral spot

Facebook has been heralded as a great source of referral traffic. Twitter, too, is an easy way of getting out links to like-minded followers. However, the sites have been eclipsed by StumbleUpon as the main source of referral traffic from social media sites.

StatCounter released statistics showing that more than half of all referral traffic from top social sites comes from the "discovery engine." Statistics for 18 consecutive days earlier this month show that 50.27 percent of all traffic from a top 10 list of social sites came from StumbleUpon.

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