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So now we know that a #1 post on HN has about ~450 concurrent visitors Edit° (~1 hour later): So I've been checking every few minutes, and it's consistently be
by notRobot 6y ago
So now we know that a #1 post on HN has about ~450 concurrent visitors
Edit° (~1 hour later): So I've been checking every few minutes, and it's consistently been at ~450, this is a cool metric to have.
°This link was posted to HN ~4 hours ago. I first checked ~1.5 hours after it'd been posted, and it was #1 on the front page. It's still #1 as of this edit. The counter has consistently been between 445 and 455 the whole time.
- richrichardsson 6y agoWhen the Europeans are coming up for midday at least. I wonder how that number will change depending on who's up.
- browserface 6y agoAnd... It crashed. Image is currently down.
- lawik 6y agoThe counter does go up and down a bit. I'll have to check the logs and see what that's about at some point. Mostly it comes back up on refresh.
- notRobot 6y agoUpdate: now it's on #2, and it's hovering around 430
- notRobot 6y agoUpdate: #3 and ~130. Whoa, dramatic fall. Edit: #4, post is six hours old, counter up to ~190. Edit: #5, ~6 hours, 173 points, ~220 current site readers. Edit: Back to #4, ~6 hours, 186 points, ~300 site readers.
- smichel17 6y agoYou have to adjust this for people who read the comments but haven't clicked the link :P
- notRobot 6y agoHow so?
- smichel17 6y agoRe-reading your comment, perhaps I misinterpreted it. > So now we know that a #1 post on HN has about ~450 concurrent visitors I thought you were trying to get a measure of traffic to HN. In that case, the number of visitors to the site is only an approximation. But if you were talking about how much traffic HN directs to the #1 post, then the number is exactly correct.
- notRobot 6y ago> But if you were talking about how much traffic HN directs to the #1 post, then the number is exactly correct. Indeed I was :)
- bdcravens 6y agoThey mean visitors to the link
- golergka 6y ago2 hours after your comment, at ~190 concurrent visitors. 4th in the HN top atm.
- lawik 6y agoI think it started falling over around 450. I've been getting 500 on my Nginx for workers, so I bumped that but the resulting Nginx restart killed the count and it is currently at 217 as it has recovered but I probably lost tons of idle tabs. The application has retained a 3 day uptime. But I don't think the 450 number is entirely true with Nginx causing an artifical cap on it. Would probably be higher if I didn't hit that limit. Drats, upped the limit, hope it recovers.
- Raphmedia 6y agoThis is pretty good considering most people will only stay on the links for a few seconds.
- trevor-e 6y agoI had a top post a few years ago and I think in total I had around ~60k visitors over a couple days. Have a bunch of screenshots lying around somewhere for a blog post that I never ended up writing.