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Here's the traffic chart if anyone's interested :) http://cl.ly/0A3K3U0V1V0e http://cl.ly/0A3K3U0V1V0e

minimaxir 11y ago
Interesting. A good barometer of the amount of traffic a front-page HN submission receives is about 100 pageviews/point. OpenHunt, with 1000+ points when it launched, only received about 15 pageviews per point. (and that's not even counting the traffic it received from Product Hunt proper, which is likely less significant.) Maybe I have to recalibrate that particular heuristic.
- tedmiston 11y ago
  I'd like to hear more about this. Is the 100 an observation from personal posts or analysis from some dataset?
  - minimaxir 11y ago
    More of an observation of those who have discussed traffic resulting from HN, and from my own analytics when my posts hit the front page.
- rory096 11y ago
  Seems likely that the heuristic would stop holding true at the high end of the vote total distribution. As a post that directly called on the HN community to take action a high percentage of readers went back and upvoted. But with 1000 points it spent the whole day on the top of the front page, so you run into the limit of the total audience reading HN in the first place.
- soared 11y ago
  There is a similar metric for Reddit, but it really depends on the subreddit. I generally get 5 users per point on a link in a comment. Direct link I get ~20 users per point though.
soared 11y ago
This is eerily similar to traffic for a site I posted here and on reddit recently. Is there a name for this kind of traffic? Looks like a huge spike from 1 source, then a small source reposts it a day or two later, then traffic completely drops off. My example is a blog though, with essentially no reason to return (posts are months apart) http://imgur.com/e7mOrsG http://imgur.com/e7mOrsG
- mozumder 11y ago
  This is basically the traffic profile of 99% of startups after launch.
  - soared 11y ago
    I am the 99%. Someone should write a blog about it, websites that get one massive spike but have no retention.

Interesting. A good barometer of the amount of traffic a front-page HN submission receives is about 100 pageviews/point. OpenHunt, with 1000+ points when it launched, only received about 15 pageviews per point. (and that's not even counting the traffic it received from Product Hunt proper, which is likely less significant.) Maybe I have to recalibrate that particular heuristic.

tedmiston 11y ago
I'd like to hear more about this. Is the 100 an observation from personal posts or analysis from some dataset?
- minimaxir 11y ago
  More of an observation of those who have discussed traffic resulting from HN, and from my own analytics when my posts hit the front page.
rory096 11y ago
Seems likely that the heuristic would stop holding true at the high end of the vote total distribution. As a post that directly called on the HN community to take action a high percentage of readers went back and upvoted. But with 1000 points it spent the whole day on the top of the front page, so you run into the limit of the total audience reading HN in the first place.
soared 11y ago
There is a similar metric for Reddit, but it really depends on the subreddit. I generally get 5 users per point on a link in a comment. Direct link I get ~20 users per point though.

soared 11y ago

This is eerily similar to traffic for a site I posted here and on reddit recently. Is there a name for this kind of traffic? Looks like a huge spike from 1 source, then a small source reposts it a day or two later, then traffic completely drops off. My example is a blog though, with essentially no reason to return (posts are months apart) http://imgur.com/e7mOrsG http://imgur.com/e7mOrsG

mozumder 11y ago
This is basically the traffic profile of 99% of startups after launch.
- soared 11y ago
  I am the 99%. Someone should write a blog about it, websites that get one massive spike but have no retention.