Nobody clicks your share buttons

(Via rendezvous with cassidoo .) I've always wondered if anyone actually used the social sharing buttons embedded on news sites and (some) WordPress blogs. Derek Hanson digs into the numbers : The UK government ran one of the most thorough studies on this. When GOV.UK added social sharing buttons, they tracked usage for 10 weeks across 6.8 million pageviews. The share buttons got clicked 14,078 times. That’s a 0.21% usage rate, which works out to about 1 in 476 visitors. The most telling part: the feature s