Generally one of my articles that end up at the top of HN gets about 5000 hits, most in the first 2-3 hours. A lesser article gets, well, less hits... 1, 2, 3k

Generally one of my articles that end up at the top of HN gets about 5000 hits, most in the first 2-3 hours. A lesser article gets, well, less hits... 1, 2, 3k, depending. Here's a screenshot: http://skitch.com/swombat/n9mrs/danieltenner.com-dashboard-clicky http://skitch.com/swombat/n9mrs/danieltenner.com-dashboard-c... You can probably correlate those with article dates on my blog and find out how many votes translate to what level of traffic. Edit: I wouldn't give so much weight to the HN RSS feed. Google Reader is by far the largest subscriber to my feed, and hits from there register as hits from google.com, not hits from news.ycombinator.com. As you can easily see here: http://skitch.com/swombat/n9mfb/danieltenner.com-dashboard-clicky http://skitch.com/swombat/n9mfb/danieltenner.com-dashboard-c... the Google reader hits are a very small minority. Most people read HN on HN, not on the RSS feed. I guess the author uses the RSS feed and so gives it a disproportionate weight.