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Visits != readers - there are a lot of automated bots that scrape HN. If you get into the top 3 or 4 on the front page, you can expect around 20-30,000 hits on
by tomblomfield 14y ago
Visits != readers - there are a lot of automated bots that scrape HN.
If you get into the top 3 or 4 on the front page, you can expect around 20-30,000 hits on your site. But the number of people who stick around and read the articles is much lower - around 1,000 to 2,000 according to my blog's Google Analytics.
Congrats on hitting the front page, by the way!
- ry0ohki 14y agoI would think most bots wouldn't have JavaScript and therefore not register on GA. I think a lot of people are bored and do click the articles on the New page. That said, even clicks from the front page are often not actual readers (as you can tell by many of the comments).
- tomblomfield 14y agoI wrote a post last year which stuck around on the front page for a while - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554206 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3554206 It got 28,000 pageviews, but 92% of visitors stuck around for under 10 seconds, according to Google Analytics.
- ImprovedSilence 14y agoBut sometimes it's a short post. I usually read everything, and with this particularity short blog post, I'd be surprised if it took me longer than 20 seconds to read the entirety of his post and close it out. I imagine you can glean most everything you want from the less beefy ars or tech crunch articles in 10...