State of the Genealogy Industry: An Infographic

Recently, GenealogyInTime put together their annual “state of the genealogy industry” stats, with the “Top 100 Genealogy Websites.” I have to admit that, while I tend to be a numbers geek, it can be a lot to wade through. Crestleaf took GenealogyInTime’s data and made an infographic out of it. Take a look:

2015-Genealogy-Industry

Anything surprising to you?

5 thoughts on “State of the Genealogy Industry: An Infographic

    1. Amy Johnson Crow Post author

      Are you referring to the top 10 sites getting 42% of the genealogy traffic? That sounds about right to me (if not a little bit high). There are countless genealogy sites out there. Linkpendium has over 10 million genealogy links on its site. That’s a lot of sites. They may not get the mega traffic of the Top 10, but in sheer number of sites, they’re going to make an impact on the total.

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  1. Jade

    Genealogy.com, owned by Ancestry.com, has been shut down except for its forums, which are now read-only. The hosted trees and family websites, as well as the limited databases, are inaccessible.

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    1. Amy Johnson Crow Post author

      True. However, that didn’t occur until September, giving them 9 months to rack up the traffic. GenealogyInTime has links to its methodology for ranking here. It will be interesting to see what site takes genealogy.com’s place in the top 5 next year.

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