You can find a lot of discussion on HN where people hitting frontpage for a few hours (or more) go into details on the number of visitors they had and other sta

You can find a lot of discussion on HN where people hitting frontpage for a few hours (or more) go into details on the number of visitors they had and other statistics. Examples: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4230885 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4230885 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933016 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933016 http://blog.elastic.io/post/22253468976/featured-on-hackernews-and-betalist-comparison-and http://blog.elastic.io/post/22253468976/featured-on-hackerne... Hope this helps