Back in January the print section asked "Will Slashdot be overtaken by Digg?"
Now, it seems that has happened. At least, if you look at the ranking graph generated by Alexa, then Digg > Slashdot.
But that's not the end of the story. If you look at the reach graph, then Slashdot remains ahead. Though then again on page views, Digg rules.
A few caveats here. First, this is only telling you about Alexa's view of the world, which requires people to have its toolbar installed. If you think that Slashdot users and Digg users are equally likely to do that, then the figures might be reliable. But these numbers haven't come from either site itself.
Also, multiple visits on the same day by the same person only count as one page view to Alexa. So /.ers who go to the site all the time aren't "worth" as much as lots of people who drop by Digg.
In the absence of solid figures, though, it's a useful consideration. Alexa's front page has plenty more food for thought, including the amazing rise of MySpace.
