I 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 request

I 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.