Readership data · updated November 2026

Slashdotmonthly visitors

Slashdot gets about 2.6 million visits a month. Publisive Media last checked the figure in November 2026, as a figure from our placement catalogue.

Monthly visits
2.6 million
Unique visitors
Not available
Market
United States and globalslashdot.org

figure from our placement catalogue, checked November 2026. Estimates, not audited circulation.

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About Slashdot

Slashdot has aggregated and discussed technology news since 1997, with a community of engineers, developers and system administrators whose comment threads are a large part of the draw.

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What the numbers mean for a feature

These figures describe the whole site. An individual article gets a share of that traffic, not all of it.

Its readership is technically senior and has been there for decades, which is a combination almost nothing else offers. For infrastructure, open source and developer-facing products, this reaches the people who make build-or-buy recommendations inside organisations.

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Questions

Questions about Slashdot

01

How many monthly visitors does Slashdot have?

Slashdot gets about 2.6 million visits a month. Publisive Media last checked the figure in November 2026, as a figure from our placement catalogue.

02

Will an article in Slashdot be read by all of those visitors?

No. That is traffic to the whole site. A single article gets a share of it, and its lasting value is that it stays published and appears when people search your name.

03

Where do these Slashdot traffic numbers come from?

This figure is the one recorded in Publisive Media's own placement catalogue, last checked in November 2026. It is an estimate rather than audited circulation, and we do not claim to know which measurement tool produced it, so we say where we got it rather than naming a source we have not verified. We refresh these every few months.

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How do I get featured in Slashdot?

With Publisive Media you choose Slashdot, share your story through a short questionnaire, our editorial team writes the feature, you approve every word, and we handle the placement.