Stuntdubl’s post on “The Search Marketer’s Guide to Digg” is really an impressive collection of information pertaining to Digg. Here are some stats on Digg from Hitwise that I got from the post:

Recent US data on Digg.com in regards to their potential acquisition talks:

Digg.com’s US market share of visits increased 231% comparing the week ending October 21, 2006 versus the week ending October 22, 2005
Digg.com US market share of visits increased 176% comparing September 2006 versus September 2005
Digg.com is the third most visited website within the Hitwise US News and Media – IT category for the week ending October 21, 2006
Digg.com is the ranked at 114 most visited website within the Hitwise US News and Media category for the week ending October 21, 2006
Digg.com received 55% of its US traffic from Google for the week ending October 21, 2006

I highly recommend reading the whole post and if you don’t have a free Digg account, get one here!