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The Top 5 Problems With Having a Hit On HackerNews
- RBerenguel 16y agoThe same holds for reddit#programming. My blog analytics in month view are now almost useless: usually 100 pageviews-a-day, and have two or three peaks of 2000-4000 from hn/proggit. Not like I didn't enjoy it, mind you :)
- samh 16y agoYep :) I just go to traffic sources and limit it to search engines - unpaid. That's what I'm mainly interested in, my organic search traffic growth.
- JeffJenkins 16y agoSpeaking of this, what's a reasonable number of requests per second an application should be able to handle before it's safe to post it on HN (or Reddit?). I've got an application almost ready that I'd like to post for comments, but I'm a bit concerned that the machine it is on might buckle under the load.
- samh 16y agoI'm not sure... From my past experiences if you post an item that hangs on the front page for around 15 hours you will get around 3000 visits. That order of magnitude is my experience. Google for "the hackernews effect". I know Justin Vincent from the techzing podcast (great podcast) has posted numbers from when his web app Pluggio (formerly tweetminer) was on Hacker News, so you could search for that.
- RBerenguel 16y agoI've had the same experience of around 3000-4000 visits for 14-20 hours. The problem may be that it is concentrated in a pike or maybe 700 in ~30 minutes I think.
- pbiggar 16y agoIf you use mixpanel, you can turn off particular items on your graph, which makes the scale usable again.