Reditt raked in more than a billion page views last month, the link-sharing site announced in a blog post.
"There are only about 100 sites on the entire Internet that get a billion page views a month, and now reddit can put on its smoking jacket and join that exclusive club," read the post. "The New York Times isn't on the membership list, nor is Expedia, Weather.com, about.com, or Fox News."
Reddit's traffic grew threefold in 2010, the company announced early last month. In January 2010, the site reported 250 million monthly page views, and by December, that number had skyrocketed to 829 million.
"This is an accomplishment that all redditors should take pride in, because people wouldn't keep arriving in droves – and coming back – if not for the community that you've created here," the blog entry also said.
It's hard not to make a comparison between Reddit and Digg. Many say that Reddit's growth could be attributed to Digg's troubled year. Digg infuriated its cult-like group of users after a controversial redesign in August. By September, with traffic down 26 percent in the U.S. and 34 percent in the U.K., it appeared that Digg was in danger of being buried.
At its peak, social bookmarking site Digg had more than 40 million unique visitors per month, but the unpopular redesign served to alienate many users and caused a mass exodus.
By the following month, Digg's problems hadn't gotten any better. It cut its staff by 37 percent in order to return the company to profitability by 2011.
Regardless of Digg's troubles, Reddit has continued to see growth in 2011.