The popular social news site announced today via Twitter that it had over 3.4 billion pageviews for the month of August. That’s roughly an 8.8% increase over the previous month, when the site topped 3.1 billion.
Reddit also saw an increase in unique visitors. In July, the company reported that it had 39.5 million uniques. For August, that number climbed up to 42.9 million, about 8.6% gain on the previous month.
The surge in traffic can likely be attributed to President Obama’s Ask Me Anything session on Aug. 29, which single-handedly brought in 1.6 million uniques that Wednesday and 1.2 million the following Thursday. Obama’s live interview on Reddit garnered so much traffic that the site’s servers were “under heavy load” during his AMA.