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4 Years of HN Traffic
- tomedme 15y agoInteresting weekly patterns. I'd also be curious to match up the spikes of traffic with significant news (01/2012 3rd week, 12/2011 2nd week, etc). Thanks for sharing!
- slyall 15y agoUsing http://hhn.domador.net http://hhn.domador.net to look at previous pages I would guess that. 3rd week of Jan 2012 ( http://hhn.domador.net/2012/01/18/23/ http://hhn.domador.net/2012/01/18/23/ ) was all the SOPA/PIPA news. 2nd week of Dec was less obvious. I am guessing a major site linked to HN but scanning through the stories I am not sure exactly which one it would be for.
- cobychapple 15y agoThanks for posting! Nothing like steady, consistent growth. It would be interesting to overlay prominent events (e.g. the passing of Steve Jobs and so forth) on this to see if/how the spikes correspond.
- yemkay 15y agoThrilled to know, this world has 150K hackers
- mbel 15y agoI'd rather say it's far less than that. Remember that single reader can access hn via multiple devices and access points, so unique IP count doesn't really feel representative.
- patrickk 15y agoYes, good point - I'm guessing many people would access HN from both home and work, to name just one scenario.
- benjaminwootton 15y agoYou do realise it's 1.5 million on the Y axis!?
- dkasper 15y agoThat's page views, not users. ;-)
- joshAg 15y agoany chance of releasing the data behind the two graphs? i'd love to see these on a log scale or with percent growth.
- cdvonstinkpot 15y agoI seem to recall there used to be a 'Mixpanel' logo at the footer of the page. Is HN still using them, & is that where these graphs came from?
- asciident 15y agoThese graphs look like matplotlib charts. I'm assuming pg just dumped the numbers and wrote a 5 line python script to make the chart.
- ahsanhilal 15y agoSo from pg's profile it seem like HN has been around for almost 5.5 years. I haven't been around HN for that long, but was HN initially private and 4 years ago gave access to public? Would be interested to know.
- mixmax 15y agoNo, it was public from the start - the ID's are sequential, so you can go back and see what the first submissions were. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={a http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id={a rather smallish number}
- andrewhillman 15y agoI am curious to know what that huge spike in Dec was.
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- philco 15y agoSOPA + Reddit blackout I think?
- i_cannot_hack 15y agoThe SOPA blackout was on January 18, more than a month after the traffic spike.
- tom6a 15y agoMSM links create traffic spikes. There is a (somewhat small) spike in August that pg attributed to a PC World article. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865985 and the article here http://www.pcworld.com/article/237616/baseball_bat_sales_rise_on_amazon_uk.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/237616/baseball_bat_sales_ris... Perhaps the Dec spike is from the Inquirer article which links to HN. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2130668/facebook-privacy-flaw-exposes-mark-zuckerberg http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2130668/facebook-pr...
- hinathan 15y agoThanks for the data! Playing with OCR engines lately has gotten me into the habit of wanting to turn static bitmaps into searchable and transformable data. I haven't taken a crack at graphs yet but it looks like things like http://plotdigitizer.sourceforge.net/ http://plotdigitizer.sourceforge.net/ might be up for it.
- leeskye 15y agoWould be cool to see this graph with a column chart.
- zackattack 15y agoCan WA parse this image into a function of time?
- instakill 15y agoLooking at the graphs, HN really isn't a weekend platform.
- chmike 15y agoWe shouldn't submit new entries on week-end or at end december. But this would amplify the oscillations.
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- willvarfar 15y agoSomewhat tangentially related: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18839832580/reddit-vs-hacker-news-vs-twitter http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/18839832580/reddi... My own numbers from just a few months of sampling What the heck: here it is on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670178 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3670178
- msutherl 15y agoStrange, I coincidentally dreamt about pg having posted stats today. I didn't bother to look assuming he would never do that.
- notatoad 15y agoi'm pretty sure that's the most linear and predictable traffic graph i've ever seen.
- willvarfar 15y agoYou predicted the steady growth of HN?
- tintin 15y agoAnd still using one server? One thing I learned from PG is to first look at your code before upgrading the hardware.
- snprbob86 15y agoI asked pg in Oct 2011: "One server. An Intel Xeon E5450 with 12 GB RAM." [1] That's pretty damn impressive. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079442 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3079442
- nraynaud 15y agoWhere's the hockey stick ?