Review (March 2024)
Stack overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their programming knowledge, and build their careers.
60M
Estimated Revenue
263.14M
Website Visitors
1.7/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about Stack Overflow?
Estimated Revenue (2020)
$60M
Total Funding
$85M
Total Employees
440
Founded
2008
Industry
Internet
Last Funding Date
Series E Dec 2020
Location
New York, United States
About
Stack Overflow: Stack Overflow for Teams is a knowledge management software for teams to ask questions and find answers.Sharing company information has never been easier.
What is Stack Overflow's Revenue?
Stack Overflow's estimated revenue for 2023 is $60M.
What does Stack Overflow do?
Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. More than 50 million professional and aspiring programmers visit Stack Overflow each month to help solve coding problems, develop new skills, and find job opportunities. Founded in 2008, Stack Overflow partners with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world's developers. To learn more about Stack Overflow's business solutions - technical recruiting, advertising, market research, and enterprise knowledge sharing visit stackoverflowbusiness.com.
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Stackoverflow?
6/mo Traffic Growth
4.30%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
263M
Time on Site
7.6Mins
Pages per Visit
2.0
Bounce Rate
54%
How fast is Stackoverflow growing?
Stackoverflow has grown by 0.1% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Stackoverflow?
Last month, Stackoverflow received 263M visitors who spent an average of 7.6 minutes on the website and visited 2.0 different pages per session. Overall, 54% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Stackoverflow?
27.8M people (11%) visit Stackoverflow directly. 232.7M (88%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 764.5k (0%) discover Stackoverflow through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 146k (0%) visitors come from Stackoverflow's email newsletters. Finally, 29.2k (0.0%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Stackoverflow?
Stackoverflow's top market is the United States and they receive 52.3M (19.9%) people.Then the 2nd is India with 26.5M (10.1%).The 3rd is is United Kingdom with 9.7M (3.7%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What are Stackoverflow's ads on Google?
Google Ads
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Stack Overflow Advertising - Trusted Advertising
https://stackoverflow.com/advertising
Advertise Your Product or Service to the World's Largest Audience of Developers. When Developers & Tech Workers See an Ad on Stack Overflow, They Pay Attention.
Keyword: technology advertisements
Stack Overflow Jobs
https://stackoverflow.com/talent/en/jobs
Attract, Engage & Hire Talent on the Platform the World's Developers Rely on for Solutions. We Help You Reach the Right People and Build Your Brand So You Can Hire Talent – Fast. Smart Matching. Easy to Use. Engaged Candidates. Developer Focused.
Trusted for Over 10 Years - Advertise to Developers
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Advertise Your Product or Service to the World's Largest Audience of Developers. When Developers & Tech Workers See an Ad on Stack Overflow, They Pay Attention. Highly Relevant. Exclusive Targeting. Unparallelled Support. Boost Brand Awareness. Brand Safe.
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Stack Overflow Talent - Reach Millions of Job Seekers
https://stackoverflow.com/talent
Attract, Engage & Hire Talent on the Platform the World's Developers Rely on for Solutions
What do Stackoverflow's customers say about them?
Review Score
1.7/5
Total Reviews
83
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Steve R
Deleted my account after 13 years
Reviewed on 2021-03-02T16:53:06
I wrote this review before reading the others so it would not be biased in any way,yet I find my comments echoed in almost all the other reviews, there is definitely a big issue with moderators on the site, bullying and belittleing appear to be rampant and as someone of 68 I have no wish to be in that kiddies playground any longer. I would suggest DANIWEB.COM for programing questions.
I had been quite happily with this site from 2007 but recently one particular moderator has twice insulted answers I have given by saying they add nothing, followed by offensive comments, it might not to the moderator gods but it does to the average user. I give a simple solution to the user problem rather than the complex ones moderators love, as they can show their amazing brilliance. A person asking a question wants a simple answer not an ego, most of my posts slipped past this one moderator and I get approval, but I have had enough with his childish behaviour and arrogant attempt at bullying, I have been around long enough to know it for what it is and a call centre operator, I have done my due diligence on him, has less knowledge than I have in my middle finger. I am there to help others not praise an ego. Flagging isn't a solution as you don't even know which moderator rejects the flag, probably the very one I appear to have upset somehow, I don't him, never met him and I am very pleased I never will, as my public put down would seriously damage his ego.
So I have just left with them comfirming it, they really need to sort out their processes for flagging, it must be transparent, reasons given and by WHOM, ideally it should never be a moderator. As for being elected, they get appointed by the system on a points basis, there is no election.
The site will slide into oblivion but hopefully another site will spring up so that people can help each other again, no matter how trivial the question appears to the superior being, to the person asking it isn't trivial.
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Ferdinand Adamovis
This website is a disaster
Reviewed on 2021-02-18T07:44:47
This website is a disaster, with poor help and rude moderators. Never see this bad website.Deleting my account. Time wasters!
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Liz Ava
I am a student and I am sick and tired of StackOverflow
Reviewed on 2021-02-17T07:18:59
I am a student. When I am not in class I sometimes need help on some programming problems that I am facing.Just recently StackOverflow shutdown my account and some of my roommates' accounts as well. They said we were all the same person and disciplined us for helping each other and supporting each other by voting on each others questions. They said we were shut down for "Irregularities in voting". Since when do I have to vote the way they say I have to vote?!?!? They also act like these stupid little points are money or hold some kind of real world value...so PATHETIC. Grown people scrounging for imaginary points! The imbeciles with tons of points are obviously lonely pathetic individuals. They are acting like someone is killing their mothers by voting inconsistent to what they approve of.
Most of the people on SO are very rude. I have had a very few number of people try to honestly help me. However they are far and few. All of the moderators are awful. They insist that your question is already asked/answered on another post, or they get mad if the question is not one that they feel is good enough to ask. I am at awe that this stupid website allows people to down vote you if your question is not to their liking. This is classic Neo Nazi behavior.
They kept telling me that my question was already answered every time I asked a question. If this were the case, I would not had to have spent hours going through those exact same posts that they said answered my question, in which it obviously did not. AND why would I spend my time formulating a question so these StackO gods (lowercase god) would approve of me, just to have it shutdown because some stupid moderator thinks he has all the answers. I am tired of them treating students like garbage and treating my roommates and I like we are breaking laws because we click to vote for each others' posts. I am going to talk to the dean at my school and see if we can block SO from our servers. I am so sick of them. It is obvious why they have terrible ratings given by thousands of people worldwide. Why they have to be so dirty is beyond me. I will never run a company like that as long as I live.
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Shan
Just a sh!tty website full of arrogant…
Reviewed on 2021-02-16T23:22:51
Just a sh!tty website full of arrogant arseh0les. If you're not an expert, your questions are just closed and not answered.It's almost like they expect the person asking the question to already know the answer and therefore, not ask the question in the first place.
A perfect website for anyone who wants to be made to feel dumb
I've started using webdeveloper.com - far more friendlier and helpful community
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Philip Russell
Great idea, gone wrong
Reviewed on 2021-02-06T20:26:54
I created a logon, spent a long time composing a question to Stackoverflow’s demanding requirements only to have it immediately dismissed and closed because it “is not focused”.As a newbie, I’m very discouraged. The answer to my question would have been either “Yes” or “No”, so how much more focused could it be? As a novice Python hobbyist, I’ve attempted to use the site many times to find answers to questions and it is most frustrating. Answers are often closed before properly answered or confusing. It’s a great idea, badly executed. I will probably delete my account because, apparently, my ability to compose a question in lucid English is not equal to their requirements.
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Lucas Czarnecki
Disappointing and useless.
Reviewed on 2021-01-19T11:39:59
Terrible, unfriendly and arrogant community as well as useless admin buffoons. Absolute zero tolerance to learners.Simple straight forward question closed within minutes, without even a chance of discussion.
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David Reyes Romero
Hostile, rude and uninviting towards new programmers
Reviewed on 2021-01-17T05:23:40
They will literally ban you if you do not follow to the letter their nazi like question- ask guidelines or simply because people did not like your question and downvoted it.News flash Stackoverflow, there’s no such a thing as a dumb question and rather than wasting so much time being so hostile against new programmers for not asking a simple question the “right” way, you should focus on providing a platform for people to learn since we all have to start somewhere. In the words of Carl Sagan, "There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question".
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Sumit Purkayastha
Rubbish
Reviewed on 2020-12-23T10:54:22
Rubbish, garbage website with no help at all. They tell you to clarify your question as much as possible with all the details.For an amateur programmer, it may get very difficult to explain everything. They downvote you if they don't like your question, there should not be any boundaries in learning, so why would there be any downvote system?
Moreover, they don't allow you to post too many questions, which confirms my earlier claim. Why would there be any boundary or limit? They banned my profile after asking 4-5 questions because I was asking "too many questions" and I got downvoted. What a joke. This site should be banned.
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