Pinterest, a leading social bookmarking site that allows all its registered users to share their favourite photos related to events and hobbies. It's one of the quick growing site over the internet after Facebook and Twitter.
Pinterest by surprising the world of social media, it has raised to become one of the most visited social media website in short time. The infographic depicts that Pinterest has more than 25 million active visitors and it was reported that more than 31.5 million unique visitors access the site regularly.
Due to its immense popularity, it has been ranked '35' by Alexa. Generally pinterest is accessed by people from different age group and reports show that 5% uses are between 13-17 years, 17% users accessing the site are between 18 -25 years and individuals aged between 26-34 years visit the site very frequently when compared to other age groups.
Pinterest users add pins to different categories and few popular categories on the pinterest includes Food and Drink ( 11.1% pins), DIY and Crafts ( 9.6%) pins, Home Decor (5.8%), Weddings ( 4.9%) and other categories constitutes 33.7% of the total pins on the pinterest.
Few top sources preferred by Pinterest users for pinning includes Google.com, Etsy.com, Flickr.com, Polyvore.com, Houzz.com and Bing.com.