By May 2012, the search engine was attracting 1.5 million searches a day. Weinberg reported that it had earned US$115,000 in revenue in 2011 and had three employees, plus a small number of contractors.[32] Compete.com estimated 266,465 unique visitors to the site in February 2012.[33] On April 12, 2011, Alexa reported a 3-month growth rate of 51%.[34] DuckDuckGo's own traffic statistics show that
