Reddit has reached a new milestone: 1 billion monthly pageviews. That's up 300% from a year ago and a 20% increase from just last month.

As it occasionally does, the Condé Nast-owned company disclosed its January 2011 traffic stats. Its biggest accomplishment was breaking the billion pageview milestone. Specifically, the social media service garnered 1,000,404,480 pageviews. As Reddit notes in its blog post, only about 100 other websites can stake a claim in the billion pageviews club.

Even more impressive is that those 1 billion pageviews were generated from just 13.75 million absolute unique visitors, which accounted for a total of 68.11 million visits. A big reason why Reddit can generate so many pageviews from so few people is that the average person checks out 14.7 pages per visit and stays on the site on average for 15 minutes and 40 seconds.

It's clear that Reddit's growth rate is accelerating. It had 250 million pageviews in January 2010 and 429 million pageviews between June 14 and July 14. And just last month, the Condé Nast website reported 829 million pageviews.

If you do the math, that means pageviews increased by over 20% in a single month. Since January 2010, Reddit's pageviews have grown by 300%. A lot of this growth has been at the expense of Digg, which has experienced a mass exodus of users ever since it launched Digg version four.





