Macro
All of Reddit
Unique contributors, posts and comments and active communities for the whole platform, every week since 2005.
Independent Reddit analytics
Reddit Historical Community Analysis
Oscylo ranks Reddit’s communities by the audience size, measures the 25 topic explore pages on an index and keeps a weekly history of community activity back to 2005.
The 250 communities’ weekly visitors added together. Someone who visits several is counted multiple times.
Oscylo in four figures
- History20+ yearsof Reddit-wide weekly activity, starting in 2005
- Posts a day1.36M3.82B posts in all since 2005
- Comments a day12.3M27.8B comments in all since 2005
- Categories25Reddit topic pages, indexed every day
Posts and comments a day average the newest full week. Each figure links to its page.
The platform
Five ways to read Reddit
Every preview below is drawn from the figures of the page it opens, so the two always agree.
Rankings
The 250 most visited subreddits
Ranked every day by weekly visitors, the audience a member count cannot show, with Reddit’s own list beside it.
Ranking for today
- 1r/AskReddit12.8M
- 2r/whatisit11.3M
- 3r/mildlyinfuriating10.6M
- 4r/NoStupidQuestions10.0M
- 5r/SipsTea9.8M
- 6r/sachintendulkar9.5M
- 718+ community · name withheld9.1M
- 8r/PeterExplainsTheJoke8.9M
Oscylo’s list and Reddit’s have 213 of 250 communities in common.
See all 250Categories
Reddit’s 25 topics on one index
Every topic page Reddit lists, normalized to 100 on Oct 7, so a small topic and a large one are comparable.
Communities
Community diagnostics
Each page keeps a community’s history, activity and participation apart, measured weekly, for more than 1,650 communities.
- Scale
- Volume
- Breadth
- Intensity
- Distribution
- Change
Equity context
Reddit, the company
Reddit reported 130.3 million daily active uniques in Q2 '26, up from 60.3 million in Q1 '23. Before each report Oscylo files a forecast of its own, then scores it publicly.
Q2 '26 as reported · against a year before
- Revenue
- $804.9M+61%
- Daily active uniques
- 130.3M+18%
- Revenue per unique
- $6.18+36%
- Net income
- $253.0M
Weekly posts and comments
Four patterns one week cannot show
Reddit’s community pages only show the latest week, while Oscylo shows the history.
r/nfl is busiest in January, season after season
The busiest week of each of the last four seasons fell in January. By early summer, weekly posts and comments drop below a tenth of that.
315,608posts and comments that weekWeek ending Oct 11, 2026 · latest
Platform overview · 0:58
From the one week Reddit shows to the history behind it
A narrated tour: one community’s member count against the year behind it, the daily ranking beside Reddit’s list, Reddit-wide activity back to 2005 and the category index.
Beyond the public pages
For work that needs further analysis
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Built for deeper analysis. Tell us the subreddits and the question you are working on, and the account is set up around them.
- Weekly visitors
- Visitor figures from Reddit for communities whose public profile leaves them out.
- Longer histories
- Time ranges further back than the public pages show, with more context for peaks and reversals.
- Your own segments
- A group of related communities you define, such as a set of AI communities, measured against the rest of its field.
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Research engagements
For teams who need a question answered from Oscylo’s weekly history. Each engagement is scoped to its question and delivered as written analysis with its figures and method.
Built for
Community and category researchers
Event studies around product changes and outside events, shifts within and between categories, and comparisons of communities across their full histories.
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Every engagement uses community-level measures only. No post text, usernames or individual activity. Requests subject to approval.