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Reloading this page every few seconds contextualizes how massive the traffic on a top HN post is/can be.
by sebmellen 4y ago
Reloading this page every few seconds contextualizes how massive the traffic on a top HN post is/can be.
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- pvg 4y agoIt's a couple dozen rps and that's with a page that's actively begging to be reloaded. It's not nothing but as traffic spigots go, it's not that much even for a small single-person-hosting-a-thing kind of project. If you look at things that get overwhelmed by HN, more often than not they get fixed pretty quickly as the authors figure out they've missed something relatively straightforward that's response-murdering.
- samus 4y agoFree (over)load testing!
- dylan604 4y agoI love the interwebs. Hitting refresh on this page and looking at the counter increase by multiple numbers each time shows how many curious people really are out there OR a clever dev that has the number increment by a random number on each reload.
- Slump 4y agoRefreshing the page consistently is amusing. Next feature might be to add a slider and animate the degradation over time for each visit like a time lapse!