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> Top of HN traffic peaks at maybe 50-100 visitors per second. That's true, but HN posts tend to go viral on other tech news sites. It's likely the majority of
by morganvachon 10y ago
> Top of HN traffic peaks at maybe 50-100 visitors per second.
That's true, but HN posts tend to go viral on other tech news sites. It's likely the majority of the traffic spikes are not originating on this site's link. I could be wrong though.
- wyager 10y agoThe worst I've ever had was Reddit/HN/Hackaday. I wish I had taken pictures of the Google Analytics report; there was a huge spike when it hit Hackaday, like thousands of loads in a few minutes (maybe a bunch of RSS readers?), leveling off to a more reasonable amount and then falling off gradually as it was displaced from the top of the page. I think I usually get most of my immediate traffic from HN. Twitter is probably the most benign; it usually seems to cause a very slow burn, with little flare-ups over days or weeks.