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?

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Imgur opens its apartment office in San Francisco

46,000 Monthly Pageviews

2009IMGUR was founded

Meme Generator - Launched June, 2013

The Most Interesting Man In The World

Scumbag Steve Ancient AlienGuy

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

2011 July 2011

Februaury 2009

on the site and

On average, users spend

per visit in January 2013

11:30 minutes

VIEW 14 pages

Imgur starts using the EdgeCast content delivery network with over

10,000,000,000 image downloads

149,000,000 pageviews per month

Imgur introduces Pro Subscriptions

Imgur's unique visitors in the United States reach

8.7Millionin August 2012

14Millionin August 2013

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Mobile visits

January 2011 September 2013

SEPTEMBER 2013

100,000,000 MONTHLY UNIQUE USERS1,000,000 daily uploads

7% 35%

the site gets over

255,000,000 visits / month

1,000,000,000 pageviews/month

Imgur hits

while being run by only 3 people

Best Bootstrapped STARTUP Crunchies award 2011

Imgur has

where users spend over

14 million monthly pageviews

four minutes on the site per visit

February 2012

Imgur generates

from 56 million unique monthly visitors

3,600,000,000 Pageviews

Imgur’s US web traffic has grown

60% annually

JANUARY 2013

AUGUST 2013

JANUARY 2010AUGUST 2010

Source:www.techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/imgur-100m

www.imgur.com/blog/2012/05/15/imgurs-startup-journey-infographicwww.techcrunch.com/2013/01/11/imgur-reddits-favorite-photo-hosting-site-now-serves-up-over-3-6b-pageviews-to-56m-visitors-per-month

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