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Don't look at those stats. They are totally meaningless. Take it from a guy who had similar traffic early on. You really should pay no attention to Hacker News
by andrewljohnson 17y ago
Don't look at those stats. They are totally meaningless.
Take it from a guy who had similar traffic early on. You really should pay no attention to Hacker News traffic stats... just pay attention to the suggestions.
I have many many thousands of Hacker news visits to my website, and the traffic doesn't at all resemble what I now know to be real traffic.
Overall, using Google Analytics for anything but trend analysis is a fool's errand. Absolute numbers mean nothing.
- JeremyChase 17y agoI wholeheartedly agree that the stats from an HN or TC post are useless, but it is still fun to know. Also I am always interested to hear the number of requests/second generated from a link. This is useful in benchmarking your site setup to make sure you'll be able to comfortably handle the load.