>During the awake hours of Europe, since there is less traffic, it is harder for an article (even though it's buzzing, relatively to the traffic) to move around

>During the awake hours of Europe, since there is less traffic, it is harder for an article (even though it's buzzing, relatively to the traffic) to move around the front page. My experience has been the polar opposite. I've had a number of posts sit on the front page for hours. One of my most recent posts drove massive traffic to our blog and sat on the front page for over 8 hours.