How did Imgur go from a personal image hosting project to the biggest meme generator on the web? http://dashburst.com/infographic/imgur-bootstrapped-startup-success/

1. 2009
Februaury 2009
IMGUR was founded
Imgur was founded in 2009 as a personal project by Alan Schaaf
while he was studying computer science at Ohio University. After
he showed off the fast image sharing capabilities of the site, it was
quickly embraced by communities like Reddit and citizens all across
the interweb today. So how did Imgur go from a bootstrapped
startup to serving 3.6 billion pageviews per month?
AUGUST 2010
46,000 Monthly
Pageviews
JANUARY 2010
Imgur introduces Pro Subscriptions
Imgur has
14 million monthly
pageviews
where users spend over
four minutes on the
site per visit
2011
July 2011
Imgur starts using the EdgeCast content
delivery network with over
Imgur opens its apartment office in San Francisco
149,000,000 pageviews
per month
&
10,000,000,000
image downloads
February 2012
Imgur hits
1,000,000,000
pageviews/month
Best Bootstrapped STARTUP
Crunchies award 2011
while being run by only 3 people
1st
JANUARY 2013
Imgur generates
3,600,000,000
Pageviews
the site gets over
255,000,000
visits / month
from 56 million unique monthly
visitors
Imgur’s US web traffic has grown
60% annually
AUGUST 2013
Imgur's unique visitors in the
United States reach
14
Million
in August 2013
On average, users spend
11:30 minutes
8.7
Million
on the site and
VIEW 14 pages
in August 2012
per visit in January 2013
SEPTEMBER 2013
100,000,000 MONTHLY UNIQUE USERS
1,000,000 daily uploads
Mobile visits
7%
35%
January 2011
September 2013
Meme Generator - Launched June, 2013
The Most Interesting
Man In The World
Scumbag Steve
Ancient Alien
Guy
Not Sure Fry
Yeah That'd Be
Great
Matrix Morpheus
First Day on
Internet Kid
Grumpy Cat
Annoyed Picard
Success Kid
Brace Yourself
Forever Alone
Yo Dawg Xzibit
Bad Luck
Brian
Sudden Clarity
Clarence
Condescending
Wonka
Overly Attached
Girlfriend
Frustrated
Farnsworth
Confession Bear
One Does Not
Simply
Best Bootstrapped STARTUP
Crunchies award 2013
February 2014
1st
dashburst.com
Source:
www.techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/imgur-100m
www.imgur.com/blog/2012/05/15/imgurs-startup-journey-infographic
www.techcrunch.com/2013/01/11/imgur-reddits-favorite-photo-hosting
-site-now-serves-up-over-3-6b-pageviews-to-56m-visitors-per-month