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Interestingly, according to [1] there were only ~11k visitors from Hackernews for a post on the front page that had ~1k comments. I would've estimated the visit
by dx034 6y ago
Interestingly, according to [1] there were only ~11k visitors from Hackernews for a post on the front page that had ~1k comments. I would've estimated the visitor/comment ratio to be much, much higher.
[1] https://simpleanalytics.com/istheshipstillstuck.com?utm_source=istheshipstillstuck.com&utm_content=badge https://simpleanalytics.com/istheshipstillstuck.com?utm_sour...
- tomjohnneill 6y agoI only put simple analytics on the site the day after it was at the top of Hacker News (unfortunately)
- tomjohnneill 6y agoFor what it's worth (and I know this is getting extremely meta), but as it stands this writeup has had 21,963 visitors from Hacker News. (205 comments as I write this).
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoBesides the analytics being added later (as mentioned), personally I see a headline sometimes and think "yeah I know enough, show me the comments". Does HN show viewing stats for comments? Might be nice for the sites featured on it to know.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- themanmaran 6y agoI had a HN frontpage post a couple months ago. The results: - 250 upvotes - 101 comments - 6,675 site views (over the 1.5 days it was frontpage)
- DoreenMichele 6y agoEvery post is different. Viral or click bait stuff on "hot" topics can foster a lot of insubstantive and often fighty comments. That's a known phenomenon on the site.
- mtberatwork 6y agoUsers tend to overwhelmingly read headlines and skip articles. HN is not any different than the rest of the Web. Something to keep in mind here and elsewhere.