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What #1 on Hacker News Does For Your Stats
- brazzy 16y agoLast month, I got on the HN frontpage with http://floating-point-gui.de/ http://floating-point-gui.de/ - this generated about 17k visits on that day, 1.3k on the next, followed by 500, 400, 300. This month, I made the slashdot frontpage, which resulted in about 44k visits, then 4k, 3k, 2k, 1.5k
- spxdcz 16y ago+1 That's really useful to know - thanks for the stats.
- dflock 16y agoDid traffic return to the pre-spike baseline eventually, or have you seen a sustained increase?
- brazzy 16y agoIt hasn't been long enough to say for sure, but after nearly a month it looks like a sustained increase of 200-300 visits/day. Of course, it's a slightly atypical case, as it's a static site meant to be a reference, i.e. likely to be bookmarked and linked to, but not subscribed to or visited regularly. An interesting observation: the gradual decrease of visits once the the site is off the HN/slashdot frontpage seems to be mainly the result of aggregators or content scrapers, i.e. sites that display infrequently updated snapshots or digests of these pages (or people's twitter timeline).